Tourist plunges 50ft to her death taking selfie near waterfall after slipping on wet rocks while taking a dip
A TOURIST tragically plunged 50ft to her death after slipping on wet rocks near a waterfall while taking a selfie in Thailand.
Nane-Iosana Bodea, 23, suffered the horror fall on May 14 during a trip with pals to the holiday hotspot.
The group were visiting the island of Koh Samui and headed to the popular Na Muang waterfall, where they decided to take a dip.
After reaching the highest point, they cooled off from the scorching heat by swimming in a pond near the edge of the waterfall.
Nane-Iosana, from Romania, had been admiring the view at the beauty spot and fatefully decided to take some selfies.
But after she scaled the perilous rocks and posed for pictures, she slipped on the mossy surface.
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Her devastated friend Manuel Opancar, 22, from Austria, said that he had walked to the top of the waterfall with her but it was “steep and dangerous”.
The 23-year-old plummeted around 50ft down the rocks from the highest point at the waterfall in front of horrified tourists.
Nane-Iosana’s desperate pals rushed to the bottom of the rocks and frantically tried to revive her.
The tourists began screaming for help until another bypasser called Samui Island police for help.
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Paramedics battled to save Nane-Iosana, who lived in Austria, before she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Emergency services then faced the complex task of retrieving the tourist’s body.
Rescue teams spent three hours retrieving her body from the beauty spot, which is notoriously difficult to access.
They used ropes and a stretcher to lift her before carrying her back.
Nane-Iosana’s body was transported to the Koh Samui Hospital where an autopsy will take place.
Her death is the third such incident involving foreign tourists at the Na Muang waterfall since 2019.
Bastien Palmier, 30, from France had just moved to Ko Samui in November 2019 when he horrifically slipped to his death taking a selfie.
It came after Spanish tourist, David Rocamundi Conesa, 26, died while trying to take a picture in the same spot in July that year.
Thai authorities regularly share warnings of the dangers at the beauty spot to tourists after a string of tragedies in recent years.
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Two friends tragically died in southern Brazil after plunging down the Chicao Waterfall while trying to take a selfie in March last year.
Pursuing the perfect selfie can have deadly consequences, with the death toll reaching a whopping 330 people across the globe in 2021.