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June 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A West Australian woman killed in Thailand during a violent bag-snatch was an employee of the travel and touring division of motorists club RAC.
Michelle Smith, 60, was stabbed in the heart in Phuket when she struggled with a man on a motorcycle who tried to grab her bag. He sped off empty handed.
A 42-year-old woman, reported as Tammee Lynn, received a gash to her arm in the incident.
Ms Lynn is understood to be an employee of a travel agency in the southern suburb of Attadale, while Ms Smith worked for RAC in the northern suburb of Joondalup.
RAC said it had been in contact with Ms Smith’s family to offer support.
“Our thoughts are with her family and friends,” RAC said in a statement.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is providing consular assistance to her family and also to the injured woman.
Police in Phuket are expected to hold a press conference on the matter later on Thursday.
Federation of Australian Travel Agents chief executive Jayson Westbury said he was certain Phuket police would do everything they could to track down the offenders.
Amanda, a Perth-based travel agent, told ABC Radio on Thursday she had lost a lot of money in a bag snatch in Phuket and now wore a bumbag when visiting there.
But Mr Westbury said bag snatching happened in every city in the world and it was not particularly common in Phuket.
“The tragedy here is there’s been a fatality,” he told AAP.
“The people of Thailand generally are beautiful, loving, caring, religious people: they would be horrified with this.
“I don’t think that people should go into panic mode and start making dramatic (travel) plan changes as a result of the random nature of this act.”
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