Police found the 45-year-old's body at the scene with wounds, but none that suggested foul play. 9News
The man was identified as 45-year-old Patrick Ward, whose passport said he was born in New Zealand.
His current place of residence was not immediately known, but he entered Thailand on December 26 on a tourist visa. Police said Ward travelled Tuesday by rail with a tour group from the capital, Bangkok, to Kanchanaburi town, where the bridge over the River Kwai, made famous in the movie about the railway constructed by forced labour under Japanese WWII occupation, is located.Police Major Kiatisak Kerdchok of the Sai Yok police said that according to witnesses, when the train slowed down at a scenic spot, Ward opened a door in the carriage and fell seven to eight metres down a slope.