AYUTTHAYA, Thailand – A 27-year-old man escaped with minor leg injuries after falling from the fifth floor of an apartment building in Ayutthaya while speaking to his girlfriend on the phone, surviving the plunge when he landed on a first-floor corrugated metal awning instead of the ground. The fall happened at about 9.15pm on 23 September 2026 at an apartment beside Rojana Road in Khan Ham subdistrict, Uthai district, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province.

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Police were alerted through the 191 emergency line and coordinated with Ayutthaya rescue workers, who went to the building to assist. When rescue workers arrived, they found the man walking near the bottom of the apartment block with minor wounds to his legs and scratches caused by the metal sheeting, though he was able to walk and speak normally.

He told officials he had just returned from work and was sitting on the edge of the rear fifth-floor balcony while enjoying a telephone conversation with his girlfriend, and said he accidentally leaned back on his arms, lost his balance and fell backwards, with his phone flying away in a different direction during the fall. The man said he was initially unsure what had happened after landing and began trying to find his phone, with rescue workers arriving after someone reported that a man had fallen from the building.

The first-floor corrugated-metal awning caught his fall, preventing him from hitting the ground below, though the roof was left with a hole and other impact damage. Several residents said they heard a loud bang that startled them, with some initially thinking a large object had fallen while others believed it might have been thunder. After opening their doors, they found the man on the first-floor roof, and one resident who heard the noise looked out of a window, saw him on the awning and took photographs as evidence. Witnesses said the man then got up and made his way down from the roof, appearing not to have suffered serious injuries.

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He thanked officials and members of the public who helped him, saying he was fortunate the awning had broken his fall and that he wanted to return to his room to rest. Rescue workers gave him preliminary first aid, but he declined to go to hospital, saying he was in only slight pain and was not seriously hurt, though officials nevertheless advised him to undergo a thorough medical examination despite the apparently minor external injuries.

-Thailand News (TN)