The half-naked body of a murdered young woman, believed to be a university student, was found in grass beneath an expressway in Muang district of Pathum Thani on Wednesday morning.
Police said she had multiple knife wounds to her neck.
The owner of a car garage said he saw a man riding a motorcycle dumping something beneath the Udon Ratthaya expressway in tambon Bang Phun about 5am.
Thongdaeng Bonsungnern, 49, said the motorcyclist first attempted to cover it with grass and then picked up bags of garbage lying nearby and emptied them over the spot before riding his bike away.
A short while later he returned. Mr Thongdaeng said he asked the man what he had dumped there. The man replied, “I threw a loved thing here”, before again leaving, according to Mr Thongdaeng, who took a photo of the man departing on his bike about 5.40am
The man was wearing glasses and was no more than 30 years old, the garage owner said.
His wife later saw the garbage scattered over the area, went to look closer and saw what appeared to be a human foot. She immediately called police.
Rescue workers from the Ruamkatanyu Foundation accompanied police to the area.
They uncovered the body of a young woman, wearing only a skirt and a Rajabhat university belt, wrapped in a bed sheet among the spilled trash.
The head of the rescue team posted a video on his Nakon45 Anyawut Pho-amphai Facebook page showing the uncovering of the body.
Police said they found trace blood stains on the ground around the body. Forensic officers were collecting samples.
The woman had not been identified.
Pol Maj Atchara Kratueng-ngarn, investigation chief at Pak Klong Rangsit police station, said the discovery of the body was reported to police about 8.15am.
The dead woman was 20-25 years-old and had multiple knife wounds to her neck, with both hands cut off at the wrists. There was a 3kg dumbbell under he left armpit and a 2kg pendulum weight placed near her legs.
The woman was believed to have died 6-8 hours before being discovered. The body was taken to hospital for post-mortem examination.
The police investigation was continuing.
The partially clothed body of a young woman, believed to be a university student, is found wrapped in a bed sheet and dumped in grass beneath Udon Ratthaya expressway in Pathum Thani on Wednesday morning. (Photo: Nakon45 Anyawut Pho-amphai Facebook page)
