Staff Correspondent|A quick-thinking woman cunningly avoided the horror of rap_e by pretending to be dead.

According to Thai media, the unnamed former school teacher in Thailand’s Sisaket province was home alone at about 3am last Saturday. It was raining heavily so the streets around her home were mainly deserted when suddenly an attacker broke into her house.

The woman later told cops how the evil thug covered her mouth with his hand, punched her in the stomach three times, and then pinned her on the floor with his arm as he tried to rip off her clothes.

“I tried to collect my thoughts and strength. And kept poking at his collarbone until a fight broke out,” she told reporters from Khaosod. “But the thief was too big for me, so I pretended to be dead instead.”

It seems that the sight of her supposed corpse was enough to make the thug panic and flee from the house.

“Once I saw he had left, I ran outside to tell my neighbours what had happened,” she said. “My cousins took me to the police station to file a police report.”

Cops have examined CCTV footage from five cameras in the area but are still hunting the suspect.