Rescuer has dead body as pillion rider for 5km trek out of forest

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, right, is acquiring to his sibling Apichart the body of the villager who dropped to his loss of life from a tree whilst picking wild fresh fruit. Rescue workers of the Hook 31 group moved the body out of the forest in Wang Nam Khieo district, Nakhon Ratchasima, upon Sunday morning. (Photo: Prasit Tangprasert)

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Sibling rescuers got turns to tie up a dead entire body to themselves plus brought it because their pillion rider from the five-kilometre-deep forest where it was found on Sunday.

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

That they had to take turn braiding themselves with the body because riding with the rough trail for the 30-minute-long trip out of the forest was too tiring for one rescuer.

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

When he had not returned by late evening, his son grew to become worried. He and other villagers decided to request help from the Catch 31 rescue group based in Wang Nam Khieo district.

The team released a search shortly after 8pm, scouring the woodland until about 2am on Sunday, when they called off the not successful search.

Upon Sunday morning, the son went into the particular forest alone and found his father lying dead under a samo tree. He informed the village chief, who eventually asked the save team to help proceed the body out of the forest. It was believed Luang had fallen in order to his death from your tree, about five kilometres from the village.

The rescuers, accompanied by police, used a motorcycle to move the body out of the woodland to Wang Nam Khieo Hospital for an autopsy.