Divers recover body of 18-year-old woman who got a taxi driver to livestream her suicide (PHOTOS)
The body of an 18-year-old woman, filmed jumping from a Bangkok bridge early on Tuesday
morning in an apparent suicide attempt after a reported break-up with
her boyfriend, was found one kilometre downstream from the bridge on Thursday afternoon.
No
charges had yet been filed against motorcycle taxi driver, Pataradanai
Noomsrinart who filmed the girl jumping, said metropolitan Police Bureau
deputy chief Pol Maj-General Sompong Chingdoung, but police were
continuing to investigate him.
Scuba
divers searched the area after a passing transport boat alerted police
to a female body wearing a black shirt and jean shorts floating
mid-river between Phra Arthit Pier and Phra Sumen Pier.
Sompong
said the body was sent for autopsy and identification at Siriraj
Hospital. Police said they believed it to be the teenager who was
earlier filmed jumping from the bridge.
A Facebook live broadcast at 2am on Tuesday
showed the apparently drunken teenager singing along with a song about a
break-up. She then climbed to sit on the bridge rail while drinking,
before stepping over the rail and jumping into the Chao Phraya River.
The
post has drawn criticism from social-media users asking why the man
holding the camera had not tried to stop the girl from jumping.
Kosolwat
Indaruchanyong, deputy spokesman of the Office of the Attorney-General,
warned that anyone who was in a position to prevent a suicide but
failed to act could face a criminal charge, which provides for one
month’s jail and/or a fine of up to Bt10,000.
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