Maltese man, 70, found dead in Phuket

A 70-year-old Maltese man was found dead in a Phuket guest house last night. The Phuket Wan Tourism News said this morning that the man, a heavy smoker and an asthmatic, was found by his girlfriend naked on a bed at the Maximum Guesthouse in Nanai Road, Patong. He was one of three expats found dead overnight. Although not suspicious, their deaths still have to be explained, authorities said. The other expats are a 24-year-old Frenchman found hanging from a doorway at a house in Moo 7, Saiyuan, Rawai, two hours earlier and a 29-year-old American woman found in a guesthouse in Rawai, southern Phuket, three hours later.