About 100 officials and volunteers, with the help of two police sniffer dogs, GPS tracking, and blood trace detection devices, are looking for the 2-year-old Lahu tribe boy, who disappeared nearly 10 days ago from his home in the Muang district of Chiang Rai province.
Yesterday, the search focused on the boy’s parents' hill-top house in Mae Yao sub-district, the village, and where he was last seen, but no clues have been found about where he is or how he vanished.
Aekkaluck Loomchomkhae, chief of the Centre for Missing People of the Mirror Foundation, said that the areas searched yesterday had been searched before, but this time it was more thorough.
Pol Col Sa-nga Srivichai, superintendent of Mae Yao sub-district police, said that crime officers from Chiang Rai also helped in the search yesterday and brought blood detection equipment with them.
He said that the police have not ruled out the possibility that the boy might have been abducted, become a victim of domestic violence, been involved in a guardianship conflict, or had an accident.
The driver of a black pickup truck, which left the village on March 23rd, when the boy was last seen, will be questioned, although the village head has assured the police that he is a villager, said the police officer.
The search today may focus on places where the boy could have been taken out of the village in an abduction, as well as a large cave near the village.
