PETALING JAYA: The body of a local woman believed to be in her 70s was found floating in a rainwater retention pond at Section U11, Bukit Bandaraya, Shah Alam on Wednesday (Jan 7).
Shah Alam OCPD Asst Comm Ramsay Embol said police received a report at about 11.30am from a member of the public who discovered the body while fishing at the pond.
“With the assistance of the Selangor police forensic team, the body was retrieved from the pond,” he said in a statement on Friday (Jan 9).
ACP Ramsay said the deceased was a resident of a nearby housing area, adding that initial examinations found the victim had been dead for more than 48 hours.
He said police were later contacted by the victim’s family at about 6pm on the same day, who confirmed that the deceased was their elder sister who lived alone in a nearby residential area.
A postmortem was conducted at the Shah Alam Hospital at 9am on Thursday (Jan 8), with family members present for identification. The family has since claimed the body.
“The cause of death is pending laboratory investigation,” he said, adding that the case has been classified as a Sudden Death Report (SDR) and investigations are ongoing.
Anyone with information related to the case is urged to contact investigating officer Insp Izzman Mohd Idrus at 013-400 3355.
