SEREMBAN: Police have detained a Pakistani to assist in their probe into the murder of a 31-year-old woman in Taman Permai 3 near here.
Seremban OCPD Asst Comm Thiew Hock Poh said the 44-year-old suspect was detained at a factory at Oakland Industrial Park here at 8.50pm Monday (Jan 21).
He said the suspect was the second to be detained after the arrest of a 38-year-old woman on the day of the incident last Saturday (Jan 19).
"The suspect will be remanded for six days till Sunday (Jan 27)," he told reporters at his office on Tuesday (Jan 22).
A restaurant operator D. Shaleni was severely injured after a man outside a sundry shop allegedly knifed her in the wee hours of Saturday.