To the Mrs Pui he laughs nervously when someone reminds him that a few days ago, just 100 meters from his house, a foreign tourist killed and dismembered another tourist. And what disturbs him the most is that she scattered some of her remains, like her head and her right arm, into the water where she takes a dip every morning.
“This area has always had the reputation of being the quietest on the island. Tourists looking for calm and not parties come to Salad Beach. That’s why it’s even more impressive that such a macabre crime happened on our doorstep.”
Mrs. Pui is the manager of one of the resorts in bungalow that surround the beach. They are cheap, between 12 and 40 euros per night. She, who this Monday breathed a little easier after a weekend where the police had practically cordoned off this corner in the northeast of the Thai island of Koh Phanganis the one that takes us to the crime scene.
“It’s the room B.6. There the Spaniard dismembered the Colombian,” the woman releases. A little below her hotel is the Haad Salad Villathe resort where the chef daniel sancho29, killed on August 2 the plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga44.
In the accommodation they assure that, despite everything, they are full of reservations for almost the entire month. “It has been horrible, we are all a bit stunned,” explains one of the workers. “Just like this now attracts many tourists who like to sleep in places where crimes have occurred,” jokes another employee.