SEREMBAN: Police have detained a Myanmar national suspected of being involved in the case of a gruesome discovery of a man believed to have been murdered at a farm in Selaru, Dangi, Kuala Pilah, early yesterday morning (Jan 8).
Kuala Pilah District Police chief Superintendent Amran Mohd Gani said that the body of the 26-year-old man was discovered by his employer at around 3am with wounds and injuries to his head, believed to be caused a blunt object.
"The Kuala Pilah District Police headquarters received a distress call from a farmer who reported that his Myanmar worker was found to be unconscious in a livestock barn, belonging to him in Selaru," he said in a statement here today (Jan 9).
He said that initial investigations revealed that the man sustained severe injuries to the head as a result of being beaten with a blunt object and police recovered a piece of wood believed to be the murder weapon, at the scene of the crime.
Following this, the Kuala Pilah District Crime Investigations Deparment detained a 21-year-old Myanmar man who is the victim's cousin, while he was trying to run away along Jalan Selaru, not far from where the murder took place.
"After detaining the man, police confiscated a sling bag filled with clothes, a mobile phone, and a bottle of alcoholic drink. The suspect will be remanded for seven days from yesterday (Jan 8)," he said.
The case is being investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code and the victim's remains have been sent to Hospital Tuanku Jaafar, Seremban for post-mortem.