Malaysia

Parents identify murdered Malaysian student's body at mortuary in Taiwan

The remains of the 24-year-old victim was found in the mountains of Kaohsiung on Thursday

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 02 Nov 2020 2:49PM

Parents identify murdered Malaysian student's body at mortuary in Taiwan
Police found and arrested a 28-year-old man, who confessed to strangling the student with a length of rope and dumping the body in the mountains of Kaohsiung. – Pixabay filepic, November 2, 2020

TAIPEI – The parents of a 24-year-old Malaysian student who was murdered last week in Taiwan went to a mortuary in Kaohsiung in the early hours of Monday to identify the body, Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) reported.

The parents arrived at the Kaohsiung mortuary at around 1.30am and were later issued a death certificate for their daughter, who will be cremated.

The body of their daughter, a university student in Tainan, was found October 29 in Kaohsiung's mountainous Alian District after the school reported her missing since the day before.

Based on footage from CCTV street cameras, the victim was last seen alive on October 28, walking alone near a railway overpass in Tainan's Gueiren District.

Police found and arrested a 28-year-old man, who confessed to strangling the student with a length of rope and dumping the body in the mountains of Kaohsiung.

The victim's parents flew into Taiwan from Kuala Lumpur at around 8pm Sunday and were tested for Covid-19 on arrival, and then accompanied at the mortuary by Kaohsiung prosecutors. – Bernama, November 2, 2020

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