PUBLISHED: 23 May 2024 at 16: 45
On Thursday, the body of a gentleman was discovered inside an electric power box on a walkway in Bangkok’s Min Buri district.
Authorities at the Min Buri station were alerted about the discovery of the body in front of One House, a building materials buy near the Rom Klao crossing, at about 7.20am, said Pol Lt Anukul Chanchek, assistant research chief of the place.
Police, criminal officers, a physician and and liberate workers went to the scene to check. They found an old energy field, 45cm broad and 100cm higher, with its protect opened.
A gap measuring 40 cm wide by one meter deep and one meter deep was located at the base of the box. The team observed a body lying on its back, with an electric wire in its proper hand. A bad taste was spreading.
Officers requested that the Metropolitan Electricity Authority turn off the power so that they could comfortably get the system. Before removing the body from the opening, the rescue workers removed the field and the cement using tools.
The gentleman, wearing a dark T- top and blue clothes, was believed to have died two or three days earlier. A smaller group of cigarette, a lighter and a 20- baht note were found in his wallet.
When she was sweeping leaves at the Rom Klao crossing at around 6.40am on Thursday, Panadda Ngokngam, 44, a road cleaner for the Min Buri district business, said she came away from the energy field after feeling awful. She immediately called customers officers at a local hall after seeing the body when she went to check.
Pol Col Krit Komnoi, commander of the Min Buri police depot, said it was first unclear how the person died.
He thought the man may have entered the box and had been unable to climb it, or he might have died from an electrical surprise.
Police are looking at surveillance footage from nearby camera systems to see if they can find out more. According to the place captain, the figure was sent for an autopsy to determine the precise cause of death.