Five bodies of militaries killed in a military helicopter crashed in Kaeng Krachan National Park, but authorities were unable to move the charred bodies out of the crash site 500 metres from Thai-Myanmar border line.

Their helicopter crashed in foul weather during a mission to airlift troops on a patrol mission to combat the forest encroachment and illegal logging in the national park.

The seven soldiers who were stranded in the park had walked to the crash site after the helicopter, unable to pick them up, eventually crashed. The helicopter wreckage was completely damaged and all five crew members and passengers were killed.

A forest protection unit from Kaeng Krachan National Park would be dispatched by helicopter to the nearest possible area and would travel by foot to the site to recover the bodies. The mission was expected to take at least one day.