SURAT THANI — Public health officials are urging tourists to be cautious around box jellyfish in the seas surrounding Koh Pha Ngan island after a five-year-old French boy died from the jellyfish’s poisonous sting over the weekend.

The boy was reportedly attacked by a group of box jellyfish while he was swimming with his family near Kuat Beach on Pha Ngan island on 23 August.

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