TEMPO.CO, Bangkok - Thailand police have yet to find the bodies of two Indonesian Navy sailors who were allegedly killed onboard a Thai fishing boat Sor Nattaya on March 8.
As quoted by Bangkok Post on March 23, 2014, the investigation results showed that the captain of the boat and 13 crewmen held Sergeant Major Alfriansyah and a naval employee named Edi hostage on the boat before bashing their heads with hammers and stabbing them with knives.
Thai police are still looking for four crewmen and the captain, known as Pad, after arresting nine suspects in separate locations. In a press conference attended by Indonesian Consul to Bangkok Yuyun Kamhayun the suspects admitted to having committed the killings.
The two navy personnel boarded the Natayya, which departed from Songklha to Indonesian waters, to look for a Thai fisherman involved in a previous quarrel against other Indonesian naval officers onshore. But a witness mentioned that they were stabbed to death with knives and their bodies were dumped overboard.
The police have seized hammers and knives that are suspectedly used to kill the two personnel. They also found a gun believed to belong to Sergeant Major Alfriansyah.
ANINGTIAS JATMIKA | BANGKOK POST