KOTA KINABALU: A security guard who did not turn up to work for two days has been found dead in his rented room in a house off Jalan Tuaran here.
The body of the 48-year-old man was found at 9am on Wednesday (Jan 3) and had already started decomposing.
Other tenants in the house had thought that the smell came from trash in the victim's room.
Kota Kinabalu police chief Asst Comm Mohd Zaidi Abdullah said the body was eventually found by the man's employer.
He said the employer detected the smell coming from the room and reached out to the house owner.
They made the gruesome find after breaking down the door and immediately alerted the police and a team was immediately deployed to the scene at 9.38am.
"Other house occupants claimed they did not hear anything strange coming from the man's room," ACP Mohd Zaidi said.
He added that police had yet to detect any criminal element in the man's death.
"The body has been sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital I here for a post-mortem examination," he said.
