Body in polystyrene box: Police seek public's help on identification

Police urge anyone with missing family member or relative to come to the nearest police station to facilitate in the investigation into the decomposed body of a man found in a polystyrene box in Pulau Tenggol, Dungun, here early this month.

Dungun District Police Chief Supt Ahmad Zailani Yaacub said this was because the police had yet to receive any report of missing person since the body was found at 9.15am on Sept 6.

"We are now trying to identify the body and we call on anyone with a missing family member to come to the nearest police station to facilitate in the investigation," he said when contacted by Bernama.

On Sept 6, the box containing the decomposed body of the man believed to have been killed, was spotted by a tourist guide who was taking a break with his friends after a snorkeling session on the beach.

Ahmad Zailani said autopsy report revealed that there were slash wounds on the left rib and the back of the body of the man whose age was between 20 and 40 years.

"Police believe that the victim have died for more than two weeks and was left to decay before being loaded into the box," he said, adding that the case was being investigated under Section 302 of Penal Code.