A German tourist fell to his death from a five-star hotel - marking the fourth such incident this month in Pattaya, Thailand,

Martin Bernhard Roeder, 57, plunged from the Hilton Pattaya hotel, sparking panic at the adjacent Central Pattaya shopping mall on June 5 evening.

Staff pushed gawping onlookers away, covered the German's body with a white tent, and cordoned off the scene as they reported the incident to police.

Police Major Thanya Udthong of the Pattaya City Police Station said: 'An inspection found that the deceased had been staying in room 3303 on the 33rd floor of the neighbouring hotel.

'There were no signs of a struggle or theft in his room. Only allergy medication was found. The officers collected it as evidence.'

A shopping mall employee reported seeing Martin plummet from the hotel onto a plant pot near the mall's entrance, causing alarm among shoppers.

Police said Police Commander Navin Theerawit, superintendent of the Pattaya City Police Station, has been notified of the case.

The investigative police unit and forensic police from Forensic Science Police Center 2 were inspecting the scene to determine the exact cause of death. They said the motive for the incident was under investigation.

The case is the fourth reported death from falling from a building in Pattaya this June.

On June 1, Thai man Sahatsawat Wongduen, 23, fell from a six-storey hotel in Soi Pattaya 5.

While on June 3, Russian man Roman Vlasenko flung himself from a 35-storey condominium, also in Pattaya, reportedly due to stress over sexual assault charges.

The following day, on June 4, American actor Michael Jeffrey Bruggink, 43, was found dead from a fall from a seven-storey hotel in the city.