Thailand killings: Police 'near making a capture'

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Thai police researching the homicides of two British voyagers say they are "near making a capture". 

Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were discovered dead on the island of Koh Tao on 15 September. 

The BBC's Jonathan Head said police are currently attempting to discover a man who left the island that day and is thought to be covering up in the Thai capital Bangkok. 

Police accept "all persons of enthusiasm" in the case have been recognized, he included. 

No less than three men are thought to have been included in the assault on the Britons, whose bodies were found on a shoreline, near the lodges where they had been sitting tight. 

As indicated by after death examinations, Ms Witheridge, from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, passed on from head wounds while Mr Miller, from Jersey, was murdered by serious hits to the head and suffocating. 

Two things - an overwhelming arrangement tool and a bit of wood - have been distinguished as the homicide weapons. 

More than 100 officers are included in the examination and they have been gathering proof and taking DNA tests from those dealing with the island. 

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Police have been completing DNA tests on those chipping away at the island 

The BBC's south-east Asia journalist, Mr Head, said consideration had concentrated on a standout amongst the most effective families on the island. 

Police have now addressed the holder of the bar where Mr Miller and Ms Witheridge were accounted for to have been included in a contention without further ado before they were executed, he said. 

He included: "His sibling has been recognized as a man seen running on CCTV pictures taken close to the wrongdoing scene - he was additionally addressed for three hours. 

"Both men gave DNA tests, yet have not been charged. The police say they are currently hunting down an alternate man joined with the family who fled to Bangkok not long after the wrongdoing." 

Police had formerly said they associated two separate examples with DNA taken from Ms Witheridge's body were from two Asian men. A prize of about £4,000 has been offered for data prompting captures