Thai police said on Monday that two Americans suspected of trying to send infant and adult body parts in parcels to the United States had fled the country.
A baby's head and foot sliced into three parts, a heart and a ''sheet of skin'' with tattoo markings were found in parcels on Saturday after staff of a shipping office in Bangkok scanned the packages, police said.
The parts were stored in plastic containers filled with formaldehyde and the packages were destined for an address in Las Vegas.
''X-rays showed there were contents similar to human body parts. From our investigations of three parcels we found human body parts in five plastic containers,'' Police Lieutenant General Ruangsak Jaritake, assistant to the National Police Commissioner, told reporters.
''The packages were marked 'children's toys' but x-rays showed they were not children toys.''
Police named the two suspects. aged 31 and 33, and said they were being ''monitored'', but did not say how.
Both men fled Thailand on Sunday through a checkpoint in the east of the country, Raungsak said.
He said the heart had stab marks and belonged to an adult while the sheet of skin with tattoo markings also belonged to an adult.
''As soon as we have results, we will contact the FBI,'' he said.
Doctors at Bangkok's Siriaj Hospital said that the body parts were taken from the hospital's Medical Museum, which exhibits preserved human remains, many of them from murder victims.
''We can confirmed that they were stolen from Siriraj,'' Udom Kachintorn, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital. told reporters.
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