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A South African family is desperately searching for their missing father after he disappeared in Phuket, Thailand, days after travelling there alone.
Deven Naicker, 65, from Yellowwood Park in Durban, arrived in Phuket on 6 November 2026 and checked into the Ashlee Hotel. He called his daughter, Lavanya Naicker, shortly after arriving, but that was the last time the family heard from him.
His phone has remained switched off since then, prompting his daughter to raise the alarm after repeated attempts to contact him failed.
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Lavanya, 35, a businesswoman, contacted the hotel to establish her father's whereabouts. Staff checked his room but found that he was no longer there.
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The hotel subsequently shared CCTV footage showing Deven leaving the premises and walking in the direction of a nearby market. However, there was no footage showing him returning to the hotel.
A tracking application installed on Deven's phone also stopped updating. His last recorded location was at the hotel.
