Police exhume skeletal remains of Penan chief

MIRI: The Sarawak police have exhumed the skeletal remains of a 71-year-old Penan chief from a burial site deep in the forests of Long Kerong in northern Sarawak to determine the cause of his death following complaints from his family that he had died under “suspicious” circumstances in a logging concession zone.

A team of police officers from the Marudi police station, some 200km from here, travelled to Long Kerong and carried out the exhumation of Kelesau Neng’s body over the past two days following a top-level directive from the police headquarters in Kuching and Bukit Aman, a source told The Star yesterday.