Compiled by MARTIN CARVALHO, C.ARUNO and R.ARAVINTAN
A GARBAGE truck driver in Bengaluru city, India, was shocked to find a woman’s body, believed to be a murder victim, dumped in his lorry, Makkal Osai reported.
The gruesome discovery happened several days ago when the municipal garbage collection truck driver was getting ready to start his shift in the morning.
He had cleaned out the vehicle the night before, which is why he was initially annoyed to find that someone had dumped a large sack in the truck.
His annoyance soon turned to horror when he saw a human head sticking out from the sack.
The driver immediately called the police who then found that the woman had been raped, killed and dumped in the compactor truck. Her hands were also tied.
Based on CCTV recordings, the authorities identified her as a 38-year-old widow named Pushpa who lived in a nearby town.
Apparently, her live-in partner had been arrested after he was caught on CCTV dumping the body after transporting it on his motorbike.
He was believed to have strangled her after an argument.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
