Body of Thai woman found in river

Pathum Thani police on Tuesday retrieved the body of a Thai woman from the Chao Phraya river in what they believe is a murder case.



Barge crew alerted police at about 8am that they had found a canvas car cover they suspected had a body inside floating in the river, which had become entangled with a barge.



When police opened the canvas, they found the bruised body of a woman with blond hair and blue eyes. Inside the canvas cover, police found rocks packed inside a fertiliser sack, which were used, they believed, to sink the body and keep it on the river bed.



Her wrists and ankles had been tied with cable, police said, adding that the woman was about 20 to 25 years of age.

The Nation