Published: Tuesday July 9, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Tuesday July 9, 2013 MYT 7:43:25 AM
Body found at durian orchard
BY TAN SIN CHOW
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First to discover body: Orchard workers Chin (left) and Fong who stumbled upon the body of the woman at the orchard.
BALIK PULAU: Two men collecting durians from an orchard in Bukit Genting here stumbled upon an unidentified body with long hair and fair complexion, clad in a short dress and underwear.
She is believed to have been murdered.
Initial police investigations found that the woman could have been killed elsewhere before her body was thrown from the road and landed on the slope in the orchard.
Orchard workers Chin Say Hong, 53, and Fong Zi Hong, 21, said they found the body at about 8.30am yesterday, and at first thought it was a mannequin.
They alerted an undertaker who lived nearby, who then informed the police.
Another nearby resident placed a banana leaf over the body.
Penang CID chief Senior Asst Comm Mazlan Kesah said the woman, estimated to be in her 30s, could be a Chinese national as the body was found with no BCG inoculation mark on her arm.
“We also did not find any documents on her. Based on our findings, we believe the victim could have been thrown from the main road. The body was found lodged against a fence.
“There were blood stains on the guardrail of the road above the slope,” he said yesterday.
“We also urge those with missing family members to go to the nearest police station,” he added.
Penang Hospital senior consultant forensic pathologist Datuk Dr Bhupinder Singh said the woman, who was 165cm tall, had died of air embolism.
He said a post-mortem found multiple stab and slash wounds in the neck and on the back of the head, adding that there was no suspicion of sexual assault.
