After the shocking discovering of a camp in Kanchanaburi’s Thong Pha Phum National Park barbequing tiger meat whereas drying the pelts of two slain tigers, police have now taken into custody the fifth and final suspect within the investigation. The man was arrested last evening and denies taking any part in the killing, skinning, or cooking of the tigers, that are a protected species in Thailand.
When park rangers first approached the camp on January 9, canines on web site barked giving the 5 men camping there warning to jump up and flee into the woods where authorities have been unable to find them. After the story went viral, four of the suspects on the campsite voluntarily turned themselves in.
The final suspect, a sixty six 12 months outdated man from an area village in Pilok sub-district, was arrested final evening and delivered to the local Thong Pha Phum Police Station when he joined the opposite 4 suspects. All 5 claim that they aren’t hunters, but merely ranchers raising cattle and had killed the tigers after the big cats had killed round 20 cows from their farm and neighbouring farms.
The assertion that they are not hunters did not impress one senior official, because the Deputy Director-General of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation expressed disbelief within the declare that the killing of the 2 tigers was only to protect their cattle.
He factors to the finest way by which the tigers have been killed and the way their bodies were handled after their dying as evidence. Classified would shoot the tiger in whatever means they might, then get rid of the carcass. But these tigers were hunted skillfully with exact headshots that did as little damage as potential to the pores and skin. Those skins had been then meticulously and professionally eliminated with great skill, once more doing as little injury as possible to the pelt.
The skin of a tiger in perfect condition like that may fetch as a lot as 1 million baht on the black market, which the Deputy Director-General suspects is the true motivation behind the killings. Still, they will anticipate a full investigation to be completed and to see if the 5 suspects can be linked to any know unlawful wildlife hunters or traders within the space..