A British teenager is believed to have been brutally murdered and dumped in a forest in Thailand while an urgent search is underway for his missing girlfriend.
Dual national Woramet Ben Taota, 16, went for a motorcycle ride with the girlfriend in Lampang province on May 6 - but neither of them returned to their homes.
Police officers from the Mae Tha district said they received a report the following morning that the teenager, known to friends as Ben, had been found dead in a grove in the Ban Than district.