HUA HIN: Police are checking hospitals in an effort to track down the origins of four human foetuses found in a trash bin.
Prachuab Khiri Khan deputy chief Pol Col Damrongsak Thongngamtrakul said on Wednesday the investigation focuses on hospitals in Hua Hin district who have treated patients suffering from haemorrhaging
Police had identified one woman who had already been discharged from a hospital, he said without going into detail. Three other women living in the district could be included in the investigation, he added.
Residents in the town were in shock on Tuesday after four human foetuses in black plastic bags were found in a trash bin by garbage collectors. Their age since conception was between two and eight months. One of them was a boy, another a girl and the sex of the other two could not be identified.
Hua Hin police have sent tissue samples from the four corpses for examination at the Central Police Forensic Science Division in Bangkok.
DNA taken from the samples will be compared to that of women suspected to be the mothers, Pol Col Damrongsak said.
CCTV footage showed a man riding a motorcycle dropping two black bags into the trash bin in the early hours of Tuesday, while neighbourhood residents reported seeing several people moving some equipment from a clinic about one kilometre away.
Pol Col Damrongsak said investigators will try to determine if the two incidents are linked to the gruesome discovery of the foetuses.