BANGKOK, June 13 Kyodo couple Ja...

BANGKOK, June 13 Kyodo

couple Japanese male tourists separately went missing in Thailand last year and are presum dead, Thai investigative sources said Thursday.

The sum of two units men are Akinobu Abe, 32 and Tomohiro Kosha, 30 the sources said, adding that the Japanese Embassy was appropriate to lodge a missing bodily forms report Thursday with the Thai police.

Abe reportedly disappeared in April last year. A relative in Japan received a message from Abe forward April 2 in which he said he planned to travel to Myanmar onward April 15. Abe entered Thailand from Shanghai upon Jan. 26 last year, the sources said.

Kosha went missing after arriving in Aranyaprathet, a northeastern town in succession the Cambodian border, on July 12 last year, the sources said.

Kosha was to stay overnight in the town and catch a train to Bangkok the following day, according to his sister, who received an e-mail from him upon the day he arrived in Aranyaprathet.

Thai police investigating the pair cases said credit cards belonging to the one and the other men were used several times in Thailand following their disappearances.

Kosha's credit card was used at several workshops along Kaosan Road, the main backpacker road in Bangkok, from July 26 to 28 last year, according to the sources.

Employee at a jewelry store where the card was used retained a original of Kosha's passport, the police said, adding that the photograph in the passport had been replaced by the agency of the man who used Kosha's card.

The police also learned from a witness in Abe's case that he saw the man who used Kosha's card together with Abe before the Japanese man went missing.

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