Divers are expected to be called back today to search for more bodies after finding almost 300 bones in a pond at the Bangkok home of a man charged with murdering a young woman.
Phetkasem police are working with the Poh Teck Tung rescue foundation as they search for more bones and other evidence on the orders of Pol Maj Gen Chokchai Ngamwong, commander of the Metropolitan Police Division 9. The foundation sent about 20 divers to the site yesterday; however, the search was called off. Pol Col Jirakrit Jarunpat, commander of the Women's and Children's Welfare Division, said police would seek court approval to search the property to determine if bodies may have been hidden there.
On Friday, a team of divers found a total of 288 bones in the pond at the end of Soi Phetkasem 47 in Bang Kae district, about five metres away from the location where on Thursday they found a human skeleton.
The skeleton was wrapped in clothes and a bedsheet and hidden under a large metal object and fastened to dumbbells with chains.
The search of the pond was ordered after police were convinced by witness testimony that it was possible there were two more bodies in the pond near the home of the murder suspect. Apichai Ongwisit, 40, dubbed "Ice Heep Lek" (Ice Metal Casket) by local media, was arrested at his house early this month after police found the body of Warinthorn "Kuk-kik" Chaiyachet, 22, from Sakon Nakhon, wrapped in a plastic bag and buried on the man's property.