Search resumes for Japanese tourist, 82, missing in Chiang Mai

By The Nation

 

FILE photo//Google maps

 

Officials and rescuers resumed their search on Tuesday for an 82-year-old Japanese tourist who was reported missing on Monday on Doi Inthanon mountain in Chiang Mai's Jomthong district.

 

Officials used drones and climbed risky areas to try to locate Kinya Nakamamura. His relatives said he went missing after visiting the Napapol Phumsiri Pagoda on Doi Inthanon.

 

Officials searched the mountain until 11pm on Monday.

 

Jomthong district chief Suthin Chan-ngam said the tourist's relatives reported him missing at 12 noon on Monday.

 

Nakamamura liked trekking and might have got lost in forests behind the pagoda.

 

Suthin said villagers at Ban Mae Klang Luang, about 12 kilometres from where the tourist went missing, reported that they saw a tourist wandering near their village.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30342888

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-04-10

Is he still wearing his Imperial Army uniform?

maybe he enjoys the freedom as sugar daddy

Search for missing old Japanese man resumes on the third day

By Thai PBS

 

 

Search for the missing 82-year old Japanese resumed for the third consecutive day on Wednesday with Doi Inthanon park rangers, air force rescue team and volunteers now focussing on a 30-metre deep cliff in the national park.

 

According to park rangers, the cliff is steep and they will focus in making the search at the bottom of he cliff today.

 

The search by over 200 authorities and volunteers yesterday went into the night failed to locate the elderly Japanese father Kinya Nakamura and was called off at 10.00pm.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/search-missing-old-japanese-man-resumes-third-day/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-04-11

I hope he is found alive & well.but if he has perished doing what he loves ,,,,, at 82, not a bad innings

Assume they mean 30m deep ravine.

On 4/11/2018 at 1:26 PM, natway09 said:

I hope he is found alive & well.but if he has perished doing what he loves ,,,,, at 82, not a bad innings

Actually, the original article  says that the guy was with his son, who left him for just 3 minutes. Look at his picture with the plastic bag in hand. Not a case of trekking into the wild, more a case of slip and fall I am afraid.

Hope they find his body.