Human skeleton found in cassava field

PHITSANULOK: A human skeleton was found by a villager in a cassava field in Muang district on Sunday morning, prompting a police investigation to establish whether foul play had been involved.

Police investigators from the 6th Forensic Examination Centre, accompanied by medical staff from Naresuan University Hospital, travelled to the cassava field near Rong Wai Fad village in tambon Don Thong after being informed of the discovery.

Lampoey Leepla, 49, said she and other villagers hired to cut the cassava trees went to the plantation in the morning. While cutting the plants, she noticed a bone sticking out from a shallow ditch. She first thought it was a dog bone.

After scraping dirt off with a knife, she found the bone was larger than she expected and connected to another piece of bone with an iron rod.

Mrs Lampoey said she rushed to inform the village chief, who…