Thai police arrest man with suitcase full of gold plated babies set to be used in black magic ritualwww2.tvboxnow.com0 q# N' P# p7 c) c) n/ j4 L/ V
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A British man was arrested today with a suitcase full of dead babies thought to have been used in a black magic rituals in Thailand.
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Chow Hok Kuen, 28, a British citizen born in Hong Kong of Taiwanese parents, was arrested in Bangkok's Chinatown and was being held for possession of human remains, police said.
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& A, I3 I0 [' O% u! c7 ]3 B rtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbIt is thought he was trying to smuggle the corpses into Taiwan.
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: V) \! `+ Z8 N- P公仔箱論壇Human remains: Two of the six foetuses wrapped in gold leaf which were seized by police in Bangkok, Thailand. A British man has been arrested
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'The bodies are of children between the ages of two and seven months. Some were found covered in gold leaf,' Wiwat Kumchumnan, sub-division chief of the police's Children and Women Protection unit, said.
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9 P% V" V$ y) Z2 q# Ltvb now,tvbnow,bttvbIt was not clear where the bodies came from.% n" C! f. O+ x' Y* W- O
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Police said the corpses had a number of religious threads and tattoos on them.
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In Thailand there is a grisly ritual known as 'Kuman Thong', where dead babies are surgically removed from their mother's womb and undergo a ceremonial ritual.. F/ D0 f2 o: w/ a
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But instead of burying them, they are roasted dry and covered with a lacquer before being painted with gold leaf.
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Grim haul: The remains of six foetuses which are believed to be destined for Taiwan. They were bought for £4,000 and could have been sold for six times that公仔箱論壇" n/ E% c: i) z: B( e; K
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. S+ B* `0 {6 J, `, H' ^www2.tvboxnow.comGrim: The corpses had a number of religious threads on them and they are thought to have undergone a black magic ritualwww2.tvboxnow.com% u% H9 A. u9 ?4 `7 @
3 u; o# d- A6 Q/ wwww2.tvboxnow.comKuen was staying at a hotel in Khao San Road, in Bangkok's backpacker area, but the bodies were found in a separate hotel.
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Police had received a tip-off that infant corpses were being offered to wealthy clients through a website advertising black magic services.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。" u! u0 `3 O) T- o$ o! l) n
8 x: t1 P( S3 U; @ n! w* Q$ xThe corpses were bought from a Taiwanese national for 200,000 baht (£4,000) and could have been sold for six times that amount in Taiwan, police said.
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Black magic rituals are still practised in Thailand, where street-side fortune tellers offer ceremonies to reverse bad luck.公仔箱論壇4 v0 j1 e' a& F
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Kuen faces one year in prison and a 2,000 baht fine (£40) if he is found guilty.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。) a+ A: ~7 h, h7 N1 H
. i4 D+ F6 R8 S: l7 A6 S$ e- GA spokesperson for the Foreign Office confirmed they were looking into the incident.
b# G. H: l' V- {TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。'We can confirm the arrest of a British national in Bangkok on 18 May,' he said.
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'We stand ready to provide consular assistance.'
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