YALA - Divers have retrieved the body of a border patrol policeman missing after a boat accident in Bang Lang dam in Bannang Sata district on Monday.
Pol Sen Sgt-Maj Kittiphu-alai, a member of a special operations unit at Naresuan Camp, fell into the dam lake about 2.30pm on Monday while disembarking from a boat at the end of a patrol with three other border policemen.
It was believed his head hit the boat as he fell, knocking him unconscious, and he drowned.
A team of divers despatched to the dam were unable to find his body on Monday afternoon, but did salvage his M16 rifle.
The searchresume on Tuesday morning and about 8.40am found the body of Pol Sgt Sgt Maj Kitti floating not far from where he went missing.
His body was sent to Banang Sata Hospital for an autopsy to establish the cause of the death.