Missing ex-newscaster: Woman who looks like Zalina Azman found in Sentul

SHAH ALAM: A woman who looks like Zalina Azman was found at Sentul but was later confirmed as not the missing newsreader.

Shah Alam OCPD Asst Comm Mohd Iqbal Ibrahim said they received information that a woman who looked like Zalina was found at Jalan Haji Salleh at around 6pm on Friday (July 22).

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"The woman was taken to the National Registration Department at UTC Shah Alam where her fingerprints were checked against the records.

"The fingerprint analysis as well as identification by family members came back negative," he said in a statement on Saturday (July 23).

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Zalina, whose full name is Zalina Shaharah Azman, 58, had been reported missing since November last year.

A police report was lodged by her son Mikhael Norman, 33, on Nov 29 after he failed to reach her since Nov 24.

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It was reported that the police believe Zalina might have gone missing even earlier, with investigations now focused on looking for the construction workers involved in renovating her house in Shah Alam.

Zalina’s mobile phone was turned off on Nov 20 last year.

It was also reported that police believed Zalina was still in the country after checks with the Immigration Department showed that she had not gone overseas.