Authorities in Thailand are now looking for two Americans who fled the country after trying to ship stolen chopped baby body parts to the U.S. through a DHL parcel via the courier's Bangkok office.

The two men in their early 30s fled Thailand on Monday after authorities traced the box to them, according to reports.

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A spokesman of the Thai police said the suspects left through a checkpoint in the eastern part of Thailand, reports RTE News. The two men were not named in the earlier report, but was later identified by CNN as Ryan Edward McPherson and Daniel Jamon Tanner.

The pair visited the Medical Museum of the Sriraj Hospital in the Thai capital city. The museum is popularly known as the Museum of Death, according to the dean of the hospital's faculty.

The body parts on exhibit are mostly victims of murder and other grisly crimes. The heart with stab marks and the skin with tattoo were from adult crime victims.

X-rays revealed that the DHL box labelled as toys actually contained dismembered body parts of a baby, such as the head, foot, and heart. DHL employees discovered on Saturday the contents as they prepared to ship the box from Bangkok to three addresses in Nevada.

One of the men was actually arrested by Bangkok police, but he was released later after he was questioned for four hours because Thai authorities were not sure what laws would apply to him, said Col. Adisorn Sensawat, the police chief of Bang Pongpang. The man explained that he sent the body parts to friends in Nevada to scare them only.

The man claimed he bought the chopped body parts of the baby for US$100 at a night flea market in Bangkok, but said he could not remember the market's location.

On Monday, the hospital's CCTV footage placed McPherson and Tanner inside the museum. With this evidence, the police sought an arrest warrant. However, the move appeared to be too late because the two already left for Cambodia.

The Royal Thai Police said they plan to seek assistance from the U.S. Embassy regarding the extradition of the two Americans.

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