Published: Monday August 5, 2013 MYT 10:00:00 PM
Updated: Monday August 5, 2013 MYT 10:02:32 PM
Bodies of young Indonesian couple found in vegetable farm
KUANTAN: An Indonesian couple who planned to get married was found dead in a plastic tent at a vegetable farm in Jalan Sungai Menson, Tringkap near Cameron Highlands on Sunday.
Passers-by stumbled on the bodies of the 26-year-old man and the 22-year-old woman about noon and alerted the police.
Initial police investigations revealed the duo, who were employed as workers at the farm, had consumed poison.
The bodies were sent to the Sultanah Hajah Kalsom Hospital in Cameron Highlands.
The police have classified the case as sudden death.
Cameron Highlands police chief DSP Wan Mohd Zahari Wan Busu said the couple had been in Malaysia for only three months and planned to get married.
"We believe they had consumed poison," he told Bernama on Monday.
