Lawson Rankin's friends found his scooter lodged deep inside a concrete drain on Saturday night, according to a statement released on his family's behalf.
The 18-year-old had been riding with his friends when he accelerated to pursue a driver who snatched a friend's phone, the statement said.
Mr Rankin's friends found him unconscious, face-down and drowning in the sewer with a split helmet and cuts to his head.They lifted him out and started CPR while locals called an ambulance, with the teenager's family saying they were "eternally grateful for the heroic actions of these young men".
"This is the most devastating thing a parent can go through, to see our beautiful son in this state in a foreign country is extremely horrific. We need to bring him home," his family said. The St Francis Xavier's College graduate had travel insurance but did not have the international licence required to ride a motorbike, which means the family will not receive cover for costs, the statement said."The bills are already over $30,000 for a few days in an international hospital and he may not be able to travel for weeks, so this will continue to rise," the family said.
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