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Murder-dismemberment suspect arrested in Yangon

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Forensic officers collect evidence in a Bangkok apartment where parts of a dismembered corpse were found stuffed inside a plastic box on Friday. The victim was a 34-year-old Myanmar woman who had worked as a bar waitress in the Klong Toey area of Bangkok. (Photo: FM91 Trafficpro)

A Myanmar national suspected of killing and dismembering his wife, whose body was found stuffed inside a plastic box at an apartment in Bangkok, has been arrested in Yangon.

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Aung Pyae, 36, a cook at a pub near Phetchaburi Road, was apprehended following a joint operation between Thai and Myanmar authorities, police said on Saturday.

Pol Col Sakkaya Saengwan, deputy commander of Metropolitan Police Division 1, will travel to Mae Sot district in Tak province to take custody of the suspect at the immigration checkpoint before bringing him back to Thailand for legal proceedings.

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