Suphan Buri: The autopsy of a two-year-old Myanmar boy who was found dead in a sugarcane field in U Thong district after having gone missing for nine days has yielded no sign of physical assault, a police investigator said.
Pol Capt Weerayut Suksaeng, deputy investigator of Sa Yai Som police station, received the autopsy report at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok.
He said on Wednesday the cause of death could not be established but initial findings showed no injuries and there were no broken bones.
Two post mortems were conducted, first by a doctor on duty and later by a foreign specialist. The boy was believed to have been dead for five to 10 days when he was found, which caused a deformity in the joints, he said.
DNA samples will be collected from the boy's clothes to determine if they contained traces of other people's DNA, he said.
The body of Salui Piew, the son of migrant workers from Myanmar, was sent to the institute on Wednesday for examination after he was found near a ditch in the plantation about five kilometres from a spot he went missing.
Pol Maj Gen Khomsak Sumangkaset, chief of Suphan Buri provincial police, said an investigation into the boy's death will start when the cause of death has been established.
"We're waiting for the autopsy report before we know where to focus the probe. If he was killed, police will look into possible motives," he said.
The boy's family suspect he might have been hit by a tractor accidentally.