Internship student found stabbed to death in Kota Tinggi

An estate management student undergoing internship was found stabbed to death at the Teluk Sengat oil palm plantation here yesterday.

Muhammad Azim Nazri Samsuddin, 21, who was undergoing internship at the plantation sustained a three-centimetre deep stab wound in the back.

A knife, believed to be the murder weapon was found near the body of the victim who studied at a university in Jasin, Melaka.

Kota Tinggi police chief Supt Rahmat Othman said a group of estate workers which began a search for Muhammad Azim Nazri when he failed to return from his routine rounds in the plantation, stumbled on the body about 6pm.

"Several workers conducted a search for the victim at the plantation about 4.50pm when he failed to return from the rounds.

"Prior to that, Muhammad Azim Nazri had borrowed a motorcycle from an estate worker about 11am to carry out his rounds," he said in a statement here today.

He added the motive of the murder had yet to be ascertained.

Rahmat said the police had contacted the deceased's family in Rawang, Selangor, adding that Muhammad Azim Nazri was on a three-month internship ending March 6.

The body was sent to the Sultan Ismail Hospital in Johor Bahru.

-- BERNAMA