Russian crushed after boulder falls from mountain

Huge boulder falls from cliff, rolls down hill, flattens car & rips through walls of monastery in Cha-am, killing mother & crushing leg of daughter.

A huge boulder killed a Russian woman and injured her daughter while destroying cars and living quarters at a temple in Phetchaburi. Post Today photo

FREAK ACCIDENTS

Russian crushed by falling boulder

6/10/2014
Photos by Saichon Srinuanchan
Saichon Srinuanchan

PHETCHABURI — A Russian woman was killed and her young daughter injured Monday after being crushed by a falling boulder the size of a car at a Buddhist temple in Cha-am district.

Alsiya Bakibva, 35, was crushed by the huge rock after it dislodged from a cliff above and tumbled down the hill, demolished two toilets, flattened a car and ploughed through several trees and into two living quarters. She succumbed to her injuries at Cha-am Hospital.

Her six-year-old daughter, found lying on top of her mother, suffered a crushed leg and received initial treatment at the same hospital before being forwarded to Prachomklao Hospital.

The incident [best described as a "freak accident"] occurred at about 1pm at the Phra Non Na Kwang Monastery in Moo 2 of tambon Na Yarng.

Sophon Sanmee, 40, the temple's construction contractor who witnessed the incident, said the boulder fell off the mountain top next to the monastery where Bakibva had taken her daughter to learn Buddha's teachings.

Mr Sophon said it was raining and windy and people at the temple heard the roar from the mountaintop before the huge boulder fell.

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The destruction caused by the huge boulder as it ripped into the living quarters at the monastery.

The path taken by the huge boulder as it rolled down the mountain from the moutain top.

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