Thai police arrest man with suitcase full of gold plated babies set to be used in black magic ritual
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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.6 y' F+ G1 I3 c4 @" X5 Y
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It is thought he was trying to smuggle the corpses into Taiwan.公仔箱論壇/ M, ]) ?9 p" N I+ G+ @
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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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' l5 V* U, n" P+ l' n2 ~+ y8 @os.tvboxnow.comIt was not clear where the bodies came from.
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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.
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But instead of burying them, they are roasted dry and covered with a lacquer before being painted with gold leaf.) V7 p+ q6 u2 K3 i
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4 ~: v) l! y3 W8 ?1 iTVBNOW 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。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
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! b/ C$ W2 N5 J$ u% [, ^Grim: The corpses had a number of religious threads on them and they are thought to have undergone a black magic ritual
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Kuen 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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. G' I& h. l9 F u7 K0 ?& UPolice had received a tip-off that infant corpses were being offered to wealthy clients through a website advertising black magic services.
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The 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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Macabre: Thai police show the human remains at a news conference after British citizen Chow Hok Kuen was arrested
5 z; A1 F8 M3 Y( y( _- W3 F6 mos.tvboxnow.comBlack magic rituals are still practised in Thailand, where street-side fortune tellers offer ceremonies to reverse bad luck.
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: [9 q( I" j! S- T3 YA spokesperson for the Foreign Office confirmed they were looking into the incident.
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'We stand ready to provide consular assistance.'
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