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Video footage of paramedics battling to save a British tourist who plunged naked from rooms above a strip club.

Christopher Laidler, 31, had been at a gogo bar on notorious Walking Street in Pattaya, Thailand during the country’s Songkran New Year celebrations. He then went up to one of the rooms at ‘Walking Street Guest House’ on the third floor above the Sweetheart Agogo club.

But at 4.30am local time horrified passers-by saw him fall to the ground naked from the third floor window. Christopher, originally from Leeds, West Yorks., was found collapsed in the street as more than 100 people surrounded him to help and staff from the bar covered him with a towel. Paramedics tried to revive him but he died on the way to hospital.

''There was no warning, just the sound of him hitting the street,'' an eyewitness said according to Bangkok Post.

Police inspected the man's room but said they found no traces of a struggle and his belongings were untouched. Officers checked CCTV and investigated the incident. the circumstances surrounding the death have never come to light.