Karon Police were informed by the 191 Provincial Police call centre at about 10:45am yesterday that someone had found the body of a newborn baby dumped beside Soi Green Drinking Water, Karon.
Due to the nature of the incident, Pol Capt Surasak Sudmuang, Deputy Inspector (Investigation), informed Karon Police Chief Pol Col Khundet Na Nongkhai of the discovery.
Officers arrived at the scene with forensic doctors from Vachira Phuket Hospital and investigators from Phuket Provincial Police Forensics Office to find the body of the newborn beside a power pole on the vacant lot.
The fetus was about five months old, and the umbilical cord and placenta were still attached, officers noted.
The body was handed over to forensics officers for further examination.
Police soon found the mother of the newborn, 20-year-old Myanmar woman Aye Thiri Mon, in a small room nearby.
She was taken to Chalong Hospital for care as she was in a state of exhaustion and had lost a lot of blood, officers reported.
Police will wait until her condition improves before continuing with their investigation and “proceeding according to the law”, officers said.