2 Year old Burmese boy found too late

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After 9 days of searching, a missing 2 year old Burmese boy has been found dead in a sugar can field in the U Thong district, Suphan Buri, north-west of Bangkok. Yesterday the Suphan Buri Governor ordered some 700 rescuers to meticulously search the plantation for any signs of the boy.

The body was found around 4.30 pm yesterday about 5 kilometres from where he went missing. The body was taken for an autopsy although the boy is believed to have died from exhaustion, dehydration and malnutrition.

Missing since December 17, Saui Piew, son of migrant workers from Myanmar, went out to play in the fields where his parents worked and was not seen again. Four elephants, hundreds of volunteer rescue workers, police and soldiers were involved in the search of the 80-acre field with around 2 metre high sugarcane plants.

SOURCE: Bangkok Post