Chiang Mai: Police are hunting a gang of corpse snatchers following the discovery of 19 bags of human body parts at a crematorium in Chiang Mai.
Police yesterday searched Pratu Haiya crematorium in tambon Haiya in Muang district and found 19 black plastic bags containing human body parts.
The bags bore the stickers of hospitals in Nan, Phayao and Chiang Mai.
The raid followed the recent arrest of Chalerm Duangpeng, former abbot of Wat Huay Dinjee in Chiang Mai for stealing of four corpses for black magic rituals.