RAYONG — 18 April 2025, a family in eastern Thailand has appealed for help to locate a 96-year-old man with memory loss who went missing from his home and was later traced travelling alone to Bangkok.
Angchan Samret filed a missing person report with Khao Chamao police on 18 April after his father, Cha-on Samret, disappeared from the family home on 17 April.
According to the family, they had been working in a durian orchard behind the house that morning, leaving the elderly man alone. When they returned, he was gone. Relatives searched throughout the day and night but were unable to find him.
CCTV footage reviewed on the morning of 18 April showed the man walking more than 3 kilometres from his home along the Khao Chamao–Ban Na road in Klaeng district.
The footage also captured him flagging down a sidecar motorcycle taxi and asking to be taken to a bus stop for a Klaeng–Mo Chit route to Bangkok.
A ticket seller confirmed that the man purchased a ticket to the capital and got off at Mo Chit Bus Terminal on 17 April. His whereabouts after arriving in Bangkok remain unknown.
Cha-on, who suffers from memory loss, was carrying about 1,000 baht in cash and had no mobile phone.
The family is urging anyone who may have seen him to take him to the nearest police station or contact his son, Angchan, on 081-895-0153 at any time. They said they are ready to travel immediately to bring him home.