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.
missing Japanese man Kinya Nakamura
He went missing since Monday afternoon as he was visiting a chedi on top of Doi Inthanon in Chom Thong district of Chiang Mai.
His son, Shinya Nakamura, a mixed Thai-Japanese man who lives in Thailand, said they were visiting The Great Holy Relics Pagoda Nabhapolbhumisiri on Km marker 41.5 on the Chomthong-Inthanon road.
He said while he left his father walking around the compound, and went to buy drinking water and take photographs.
He said when he returned three minutes later, he couldn’t find his father.
He then alerted the authorities who later arrived and found traces of grass being stomped near the cliff, but could not find the missing Japanese.
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