Dead Body With Missing Organs Found In Sepang Believed To Be Runaway COVID-19 Patient
The body was found floating face down in the mining pool without an identity card nor identifiable features, thus complicating identification efforts.
By Arisha Rozaidee — 26 Nov 2020, 02:32 PM
Police recently discovered a dead body without clothes, and with its internal organs missing, floating in a mining pool in Sepang
According to Bernama, the body was found on Tuesday, 10 November, at an Orang Asli village in Bukit Dugang, Dengkil.
The body was found floating face down in the mining pool without an identity card nor identifiable features, thus complicating identification efforts
Sepang district police chief ACP Wan Kamarul Azran Wan Yusof told Astro Awani that the person is believed to have died five days before the body was discovered.
He also added that according to hospital authorities, the body has been identified as a man based on the physical features and it only had enough skin on three fingers for the fingerprints to be detected.
Meanwhile, the missing internal organs may have been eaten by wild animals.
A company has since come forward and said that the deceased could possibly be one of their staff members, a foreign worker who ran away from a COVID-19 quarantine centre
Wan Kamarul told Harian Metro, "The man arrived in this country through the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). After two days of undergoing quarantine, he escaped from the Marriott Hotel quarantine centre. The body was then found floating without internal organs in a mining pool."
He added that the police have requested for the man's deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sample from the embassy of his country of origin.
Police are still awaiting confirmation of the victim's identity through the DNA of his family in his home country. The case has been classified as sudden death.
