A British woman has been killed after she was swept down a huge waterfall in Thailand.
Sarah Crutchley, 30, was swept down by a current of water after she slipped while walking across submerged rocks close to the edge of the Ton Nga Chang falls, the Daily Mail reports.
Witness Chris Penny, 21, said Miss Crutchley managed to grab onto a boulder for a few seconds but was eventually swept down the fall by the powerful water.
"I tried to get to her but I also slid and fell and grabbed on to another rock," he told the Daily Mail.
"She was about one or two feet from edge but didn't say a word."
Mr Penny said it was "horrible to watch" as the 30-year-old slid about 10m down the rock face before falling about 100m down the falls.
"I think she was knocked out cold during the first fall and she wouldn't have known anything about it," he told the Mail.
Twenty minutes later Miss Crutchley's body was recovered from the water.
The 30-year-old, from Bournemouth on England's south coast, had just begun an English teaching course in Thailand and was climbing Ton Nga Chang, a series of falls which drop over 1500m.
She was climbing one of the lower tiers when she fell.
The body remains in Thailand but is due to be flown back to Britain.
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