BANGKOK, Oct. 5 -- What began as a routine recovery of a lost phone took a macabre turn when a man in Thailand discovered images of decomposed human remains on his returned device.

News site Khaosod English reported that Nattapon, who lost his phonein Nonthaburi Province, north-west of Bangkok, contacted the person who had found it and arranged to retrieve it.

Upon inspecting the phone at home, he was horrified to find photographs of skeletal remains inside an abandoned building.

Police from Pak Kret Station in Nonthaburi Province were called in to investigate.

Officers examined a four-storey derelict building in Soi Chaeng Watthana-Pak Kret 43/1, Khlong Kluea subdistrict, and found badly decomposed human remains on the third floor. ...