The Office of the Police Attaché in Thailand has asked for copies of the fingerprints of the two cadavers found in a shipping container from the Philippines, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.

Citing an initial report from the Philippine Embassy in Thailand, DFA Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs Eduardo de Vega said the police attaché is working with Thai authorities to determine the identities of the two bodies, believed to be Filipinos.

De Vega said the fingerprints from the two bodies will be compared to the databases of the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police.

"[The] Office of the Police Attaché in Thailand has asked for the fingerprints of the cadavers to match with the fingerprint database of the NBI and PNP," he told Daily Tribune.

Earlier this week, Thai authorities at the Inland Container Depot in the Klong Sam Prawet subdistrict of Bangkok's Lat Krabang district found a pair of bodies, a man and a woman, both in a decomposed state, in a container that arrived on the cargo vessel MV Ever Beady.

Initial Thai media reports said the Ever Beady, which left the Philippines on 23 September, had been at Lat Krabang since 24 September.

The two cadavers, both with burns, were discovered by warehouse personnel at the port. The initial report said the woman wore a gold ring, while the man wore shorts but no shirt. The authorities also found a black T-shirt imprinted with "Alpha Kappa Rho, Vincit Omnia Veritas."