Headless body found on Songkhla beach

Police investigators on the beach where a headless body was found half-buried in the sand, in tambon Khao Rup Chang of Songkhla's Muang district on Wednesday morning. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan)
Police investigators on the beach where a headless body was found half-buried in the sand, in tambon Khao Rup Chang of Songkhla's Muang district on Wednesday morning. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan)

A headless human body was found on a Songkhla beach by a man out for a walk on Wednesday morning.

Taweesak Singthong, 72, reported to police that he came across the skeletal remains near the shoreline.

Police and doctors from Songkhla Hospital went to check out the report.

Only the bones of the upper part of the body were visible, and there was little flesh left on them. The rest was buried in the sand. There was no head. It was not known if the deceased was male or female, or how they died.

The remains were taken to Songkhla Hospital for examination and missing persons records were being checked.

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Vocabulary

  • bones (noun): the various parts of the hard inner structure of the body - กระดูก
  • deceased: dead - ซึ่งตายแล้ว
  • flesh (noun): the skin of the human body - ผิวเนื้อของคน
  • remains: the body of a person who has died - ศพ
  • shoreline: the edge of the sea, the ocean, or lake, large river - แนวชายฝั่ง
  • skeletal: involving the bones that form the structure of the bodies of humans or animals -
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