KANCHANABURI: The naked body of an unidentified man, tattooed and heavily built, was found floating in the Kwai Yai River near a floating restaurant in Muang district on Sunday, police said.
Pol Capt Pongsathorn Pacharalekakul, Muang police deputy chief investigator, said police and divers of Pithak Kan Foundation went to search the river under a bridge at Ban Nong Bua after receiving a report that a body had been sighted at 11.20am.
They discovered the body of a man, aged about 50, heavily tattooed all over the torso. The body was decaying, emitting a foul smell in the vicinity, and the face had swollen beyond recognition. The man was believed to have been dead for more than three days. It was not known whether he was a foreigner or a Thai national.
It was not immediately determined whether he had drowned or had been murdered.
The body was handed over to the Forensic Medicine Institute to establish the cause of death.
