Thailand: bodies ‘stuffed with concrete’ found in Mekong river

Police fear the two victims are missing political activists

Thai police
(Image credit: Madaree Tohlala/AFP/Getty Images))

Thai officials believe that two concrete-filled bodies found on the banks of the Mekong river may be those of missing political activists.

The corpses of the two unidentified men were discovered in sacks that washed up in the northwestern province of Nakhon Phanom on Monday.

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