NEARLY a hundred national park officials and policemen who are searching for a Thai man missing on Phu Soi Dao mountain at Phu Soi Dao National Park, Uttaradit, since last Thursday (July 4) got help from helicopter sent by Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in continuing to hunt for him, Naewna newspaper said this evening (JULY 7).
The missing tourist was identified as Mr. Thanawarish (surname withheld), 27, a resident of Mahasarakham province and he was the last person to register to hike to the peak at 12.30 p.m. However when he did not return by 5.30 p.m. a team went to search for him along the natural trail to Phu Soi Dao waterfall, a distance of 6.5 km, but returned at 11 p.m. without finding him.
Early the next day (July 5) park officials contacted the missing tourist’s relatives who said he is a psychiatric patient and had to have medicine regularly. However he did not mention any health problems when registering to hike to the peak.
Mr. Farut Jaithankul, the head of Phu Soi Dao National Park, divided the rescuers into five teams with some Border Patrol Police and Den Lek police station officers plus rescuers from Prasat Boon Sathan Foundation joining them.
The teams fanned out to search for him from the point where his bag was found on the bank of a stream down to the second service station at Phu Soi Dao waterfall amid heavily overcast sky and rain but did not find him.
Today, Mr. Komes Phutthason, head of Protected Area Regional Office 11, was informed by Minister of National Resources and Environment Patcharawat Wongsuwan that a helicopter is being dispatched to help search for the tourist with this having already arrived at the natural park.
In continuing the search today, teams one to four thoroughly searched a radius of one square kilometre each from the point where the bag was found while the fifth team patrolled both banks of the stream.
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Rescuers searching for the Thai tourist missing on Phu Soi Dao mountain since last Thursday. Photos: Naewna
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