SAMUT PRAKAN — Police have recovered the fourth and final bag containing a human organ believed to be from missing Japanese man Yoshinori Shimato from Khlong Nang Thim canal in Bang Bo district.
Divers found the fourth bag at 5.40pm about two kilometers from the spot they had retrieved the third bag containing human body parts near a bridge across the Khlong Nang Thim canal close by Assumption University's Bang Na campus off Bang Na-Trat Road.
Police said inside the bag was human flesh from the dead person’s chest. The bag was weighed down by soil and bricks.
The flesh has been sent for examination at the Institute of Forensic Medicine (IFM) at the Police General Hospital.
Pol Lt Gen Ruangsak Jaritek, acting assistant national police chief, said Tetsuo Shimato, son of the elderly Japanese man, had provided useful information.
There were three indications given by Mr Tetsuo to confirm the body found in the canal was his father. Among them were two dentures worn by the 79-year-old and a metal piece in his right knee.
Taxi driver Somchai Kaewbangyang and his wife Pornchanok Chaiyapa on Wednesday confessed to police they had dismembered Yoshinori Shimato at their house in Orchid Villa housing estate in Samut Prakan and placed the parts in four bags with sand before sinking them in the canal.
The couple withdrew a total of 700,000 baht from the victim’s ATM card.
The first two bags were discovered Tuesday night while the third was found at 1pm today.