Thai police said Monday they have arrested a Thai man and a teenager from Myanmar suspected of murdering two Japanese tourists who disappeared in Thailand last year.
According to police, Picherd Saenkaew, 30, from northeastern Thailand's Sisaket Province, said that he and Aung Kyaw Zaw, 19, from the city of Keng Tung in Myanmar's Shan State, murdered Akinobu Abe, 32, in April 2001 and Tomohiro Kosha, 30, in July the same year and disposed of the bodies in Bangkok.
Abe's body was found on April 5, 2001, in the Sukhumvit area of Bangkok. Police are still searching for Kosha.
Picherd, whom police described as a transvestite, and Aung Kyaw Zaw were arrested Sunday at a bar in Sukhumvit where they worked.