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Quote[/b] ]...and the "pick-up" van used to convey a deceased from the street to...

Probably to the funeral pyre for cremation. I have never seen a fancy Bangkok funeral, only a local Issan one, but that would be my best guess. Did you happen to hear fireworks? At my father-in-law's funeral people set off fireworks to keep bad spirits away at the cremation.