Bound girl's body found in river

Crew of a transport barge alerted police at about 8am that a canvas car cover with the body inside was found floating in the river and had entangled with the barge at a local pier.

Upon inspection of the car cover, police found rocks packed inside a fertiliser sack, which they believed were used to sink the body.

The woman, with her wrists and ankles tied, was covered with two towels that police suspect belong to a hotel in an upstream province, possibly Ayutthaya or Angthong. They will use them to try and identity the victim. The body was sent for autopsy.

Sam Khok superintendant Pol Col Sommai Naksimok said police suspect the woman, about 150cm tall, was a working girl or a salon employee and was killed by a blunt force blow to the head about a week ago.