Baby whose killing aired on Facebook laid to rest

Tearful relatives gathered outside a Thai temple yesterday to bury an 11-month-old girl killed by her father in a harrowing murder he broadcast live on Facebook before committing suicide.

The Buddhist ceremony on the southern island of Phuket concluded a week of funeral rites for baby Natalie, who was hanged from the side of an abandoned building on Monday by her 20-year-old father Wuttisan Wongtalay.

Wuttisan, who hanged himself shortly after, filmed the macabre scene using his phone and broadcast it on Facebook Live. The video was seen by Natalie’s 22-yearold mother and hundreds of thousands of others before it was taken down some 24 hours later, prompting calls for Facebook to move swiftly to block graphic content.

Yesterday relatives held Natalie’s sobbing mother as Buddhist monks chanted around a freshly-dug grave for the infant, who was pictured in a framed photo wearing a red dress.

Her tiny body was swaddled in pink, red and white cloth before it was lowered into the ground alongside a collection of her favourite toys and pillows.