BUKIT MERTAJAM: The nude body of a woman was found in some bushes near an oil palm estate at Berapit here yesterday.
Penang Criminal Investigations Department chief SAC Zahruddin Abdullah said passers-by discovered the body, which was starting to decompose, at about 10.30am and called the police.
Police believe the woman was murdered in a nearby hut belonging to Penang Water Supply Corporation where traces of blood were found, he told reporters at the scene.
The identify of the woman, believed to be Chinese, is not yet known.— Bernama