A five-year-old boy who had gone missing for four days was reunited with his father at Pathumwan Police Station in central Bangkok early yesterday morning March 28.
The young boy, Nattapon Thiptanakarn, rushed into his father Amnuay’s arms at the station, in a moment that was captured by local media.
Nattapon aka Mac allegedly disappeared with a teenage boy identified as K or Pang Kongis on Sunday March 24 at a department store in Samut Prakan, The Nation reported. Amnuay and his wife contacted both the police and the media to help find Mac.
On Tuesday March 27, good samaritan Saowanee Imyuenyong contacted Mac’s parents and told them that she had seen the young boy with the teenager Pang at around 11pm on Monday in Charurat Tonsai Community in Bangkok’s Ratchathewi district.
Saowanee said Pang had relatives in the community and often came there with a different small boy. She said that the kids were usually between the ages of five and 10 and that when their parents would find them they wouldn’t end up pressing charges because Pang allegedly suffered mental problems.
“He’s not always there. His relatives are also getting fed up with him bringing the children of others to play with him,” Saowanee said.
Many other residents of the Charurat Tonsai Community also confirmed that they had seen Nattapon walking with Pang.
On the recommendation of the local residents, Amnuay and his wife waited at the community for Pang and their boy, which the residents said would return around 2am. After several nerve-wracking hours the boys hadn’t shown up.
But at around 3am the Pathumwan Police Station contacted Amnuay and told him they had found Mac.
Security guards had found him sleeping in front of the Siam Center and called the police.
