British tourist likely to have died in Thai South of chronic disease

BANGKOK, January 27 (TNA) - The Institute of Forensic Medicine (IFM), under the Royal Thai Police, says that a female British tourist who was found dead at a hotel on Koh Tao off Surat Thani Province in the Thai South recently may die because of her chronic disease and a medicine she took, as an autopsy did not find any drugs in her body. IFM Commander Police Major General Pornchai Suteerakune told journalists of the update on Tuesday, insisting that officials who conducted the autopsy did not find any narcotics in the body of the 23-year-old female British tourist, identified as Christina Annesley; so, the cause of her death might be her chronic disease and her medication. According to the IFM commander, officials will take some times to thoroughly check medicines in her body, as the examination is complicated and time-consuming. The British tourist was found dead in her hotel room on Koh Tao on January 20. (TNA)