A thief has taken a metal statue of the symbol from the Defence Ministry, the particular mythical Kotchasri, from its plinth in front of the Protection Technology Institute within Pak Kret area, Nonthaburi.
Gen Kongcheep Tantrawanich, the ministry speaker, said on Friday that the missing effigy was one of a pair installed in front of the start building in Muang Thong Thani property. It is about 25 centimetres tall and 20cm wide.
He was confident the thief would be caught soon, because there were many surveillance cameras in the area.
Somkiat Panchana, a 45-year-old security guard at the institute, discovered the particular theft on Thursday morning and reported it to Pak Kret police.
The suspect is a man in the 30s seen circling about on a motorcycle in front of the institute late on Wednesday night. He was wearing a white T-shirt plus shorts.
The missing Kotchasri statue was brand new. The mythical animal has a lion’s entire body with an elephant’s tusked head and elevated trunk.
The Kotchasri sculpture outside the Defence Technology Institute in Pak Kret district, Nonthaburi. It was stolen on Wednesday night. (Photo supplied)