Rescuer has a body as his 5km pillion rider

Rescuer Montree Phiewphong, right, is securing to his brother Apichart the body of a villager who fell to his death from a tree while picking wild fruit. Rescue workers of the Hook 31 team moved the body out of the forest in Wang Nam Khieo district, Nakhon Ratchasima, on Sunday morning. (Photo: Prasit Tangprasert)
Rescuer Montree Phiewphong, correct, is securing to his brother Apichart the body of a villager who fell in order to his death from the tree while picking wild fruit. Recovery workers of the Hook 31 team shifted the body out of the woodland in Wang Nam Khieo district, Nakhon Ratchasima, on Weekend morning. (Photo: Prasit Tangprasert)

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Brother rescuers took turns to tie the dead body to themselves and delivered it as their pillion rider from a five-kilometre-deep forest where it had been found on Sunday.

Montree Phiewphong said he and his younger brother Apichart were the pair that brought your body of Luang Chodkasem, 73, from the forest in a community forest in Thap Lan National Park within Wang Nam Khieo district.

They had to consider turn tying by themselves with the body due to the fact riding through the tough trail for the 30-minute-long trip out of the forest was too exhausting for one rescuer.

Luang was a resident of Ban Hua Khao Thong village in tambon Ubon Sap of Wang Nam Khieo. He left the village on Saturday afternoon, heading into the woodland in search of wild samo fruit (black myrobalan).

When he had not returned by late evening, their son became worried. He and other villagers decided to ask for help from the Hook 31 rescue team based in Wang Nam Khieo district.

The particular team launched research online shortly after 8pm, checking the forest till about 2am on Sunday, when they called off the unsuccessful lookup.

On Sunday morning, the child went into the forest alone and discovered his father resting dead under a samo tree. He educated the village main, who subsequently requested the rescue group to help move the body out of the forest. It had been believed Luang acquired fallen to their death from the shrub, about five kilometres from the village.

The rescuers, accompanied by police, used a motorcycle to transport the body out of the forest in order to Wang Nam Khieo Hospital for an autopsy.