The remains of Nigerian national, Chika Anaebom popularly known as Chika Malaysia killed in Thailand has been brought home.
ABN TV reports that His body touched Murtala Mohammed international airport Lagos at about 3:42pm on Saturday from he was ferried
Family source says a date for his burial will be announced soon.
He was killed last year along with a Vietnamese woman and buried in a shallow grave in northeastern Thailand.
Police forensics investigators identified the bodies of the two victims.
A wild mushroom harvester discovered their bodies in a forest at Chok Chai district in Nakhon Ratchasima on the evening of July 28, 2022.
The man noticed a fresh pile of earth covered with branches about 500 metres off Highway 224. The village head and other residents went to check it out.
They dug into the soil and quicky stopped when they uncovered part of a human body.
Police were called to the scene and rescue workers dug deeper, uncovering the bodies of a man and a woman buried less than one metre down.
Village headman Thepbancha Saikrathok said the woman’s body was above the man’s body in the grave, and each was mostly covered with a layer of cement.
The two bodies were taken to Chok Chai Hospital for full post-mortem examination to support investigation and identification
On Thursday, August 4, Nakhon Ratchasima police said the serial number of the Vietnamese woman’s silicone breast implants and Anaebom’s fingerprint assisted in identifying them.
Authorities in Thailand have however heeded to the appeal by Mr. Anaebom’s family to hand over his corpse to them.
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