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Published on November 7, 2007

The six have been missing from a conservation village called Huai Pukaeng in Muang district's Tambon Pha Bong since September 24.

Village headman Somporn Worajaruwan accompanied the plaintiff named Yathae, 43, to file a complaint with Nam Piang Din Police Station chief Major Worapot Phutthawong.

Yathae told police that his wife Masae, 34, eight-year-old daughter and six-year-old son were among the missing people.

Yathae went to pick up his elder son at Ban Pha Bong School and returned to the village to find the three had disappeared, so he went to another long-neck community at Ban Huai Seu Thao located three kilometres away. He then was told that 21-year-old Mali, a 10-year-old boy Layeu, and 11-year-old girl Keuboma had also gone missing.

Residents said they saw some strangers in Ban Huai Seu Thao before the six went missing.

Worapot said an investigation team would be set up to look for the six people. Although police had some ideas on where they could be, they must have clear evidence before asking for arrest warrants to nab the gang members who have previously abducted members of the long-neck community out of Mae Hong Son to other provinces, he added.

The Nation