Police are reviewing missing persons reports after discovering the dismembered body of an unidentified woman in the bushes off Sam Wa Road in Klong Sam Wa district of Bangkok.
Police, forensic officers and rescue workers rushed to the remote road in the Bang Chan area after being alerted at around 10.30pm on Friday, said Pol Lt Col Suwimon Manjai, deputy investigation chief of the Min Buri station.
Mutilated body parts were stuffed into separate plastic bags and fertiliser sacks in the roadside bushes, about one kilometre away from the Min Buri branch of a Tesco Lotus superstore.
A Romsai rescue foundation volunteer, who alerted police, said he regularly used the route and noticed a black backpack abandoned in the area three or four days ago. He became suspicious after noticing a strong smell. He went to check and found a wrapped human head inside the backpack. He immediately alerted police.
Min Buri police and rescue workers began to search the area and found two fertiliser sacks and a garbage bag not far from the backpack. More body parts were found inside those bags, prompting police to cordon off the area.
Forensic police examined the backpack and found a human head wrapped in a red towel, with two garbage bags wrapped around it. One of the two fertiliser sacks contained three garbage bags stuffed with parts including a female torso with signs of mutilation in the genital area.
The other fertiliser sack contained two garbage bags, one containing two thighs and the other one a black towel, a black brassiere, a red long-sleeved garment with a hood and a red T-shirt. All of the clothes had been slit.
At around 2am Saturday, rescue workers found more garbage bags with body parts, including hands, feet and arms, along with personal belongings including four fashionable rings, a gold ring and a pair of glasses.
Investigators said the mutilated body parts belonged to a woman aged around 30 to 35. She had been cut into 14 pieces. Only the right arm was still missing.
Officers are now checking several police stations to determine if any of them had received complaints from families of missing persons recently.
A backpack containing a woman's head was among the gruesome discoveries made in bushes off Sam Wa Road. (Photo from Romsai rescue foundation Facebook page)