BATU PAHAT: Police have confirmed that the human skeletal remains found in bushes near a durian orchard close to the Penghulu Mukim Linau Complex in Jalan Yong Peng, on June 24, belong to a teenager reported missing since May 26.
Acting Batu Pahat District Police Chief, Supt Shahrulanuar Mushaddat Abdullah, said the confirmation of the remains as belonging to Hafiz Fauzan Abdul Halid, 16, was based on DNA profiling analysis done by the Johor branch of the Chemistry Department.
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