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ShareBangkok: David Carradine, the Hollywood actor who was found dead in a Bangkok hotel closet, appeared to have died in a sex act gone wrong, police in Thailand claimed.
A maid in the hotel found the 72-year-with a rope tied around his neck and his testicles. Police said an autopsy was being carried out to determine the cause of death, but a spokesman for the actor's family said they were "100 per cent" certain he did not commit suicide.
"There was a rope tied around his neck and another rope tied at his sex organ, and the two ropes were tied together and hung in the closet," police lieutenant general Worapong Siewpreecha said.
"In these circumstances we cannot be sure that he committed suicide, but he may have died from masturbation."
David Carradine was best known for his role as the fugitive half-Chinese Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s TV drama Kung Fu, but he revived his career with a role in the Kill Bill movies this century. He was in the Thai capital to shoot for a film called Stretch.
An initial autopsy revealed that Carradine had died from a sudden lack of oxygen and his body showed no signs of struggle, a hospital worker who had read the report told AFP on condition of anonymity.
