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Pattaya disappearances
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In mid‑July 2026, 2026 Thai police began investigating the disappearance of 17‑year‑old Nong Tong, who vanished after arranging to meet an unidentified foreign man at a mall in Pattaya. Pattaya mall. Her family launched a social‑media appeal, and investigators sought any found no link to a recent suitcase murder but found none. murder. A few weeks later, the focus shifted later attention turned to the disappearance of Russian siblings Iana Diana (22) and Roman (17) Nazimova, who left their Chonburi home near Pattaya on a motorcycle on 26 July and never returned. Surveillance captured showed a second motorcycle following them, and them; the siblings' siblings’ bike was later found dismantled and buried in a former an abandoned cemetery. Police combed the forested area, targeting focused on two local men known as “Pong” and “Thong,” but no arrests were made. Both cases remain open, highlighting made at that stage. On 29 July police announced arrest warrants for the two suspects—identified as 43‑year‑old Tana (“Pong”) and 39‑year‑old Thongchai (“Thong”). Two additional men, Suea Hoy and Phang, were detained for allegedly assisting the primary suspects and helping dig the burial pit. A raid on a surge in missing‑person incidents house in Huay Yai subdistrict yielded no capture of the main suspects. Hundreds of officers, tourist city. The two police and volunteers continue ground searches with sniffer dogs, but the Nazimova siblings remain missing. Both investigations illustrate highlight a broader pattern of surge in unexplained vanishings in Pattaya, the tourist city, prompting heightened police searches activity and growing concern among local residents and expatriate communities. expatriates.
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