A 17-year-old Thai girl was on a lively strip of palm-fringed sand in the seaside city of Pattaya on Wednesday night, where a friend said she met a foreign man and struck up a conversation.

In the early hours of Thursday, they returned to his apartment, where she was strangled and killed, police said.

Two days later, Thai police said ?they found the teenager¡¯s naked corpse, stuffed inside a suitcase and dumped in waist-high grass, near a railway track, a short distance away from ?the beachfront.