Mutilated body found in East Jakarta

Mutilated body found in East Jakarta

Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Two men found a human head and two legs in a sack at the Kebon
Nanas graveyard in Cipinang Besar Selatan, East Jakarta, on
Monday afternoon.

Sarkudin, 21, and Nurcholis, 15, both restaurant workers, said
that they found the sack, containing the head with a broken nose
and an injured mouth, along with a pair of legs cut off at the
knee, at around 5:30 p.m.

"We screamed when we saw the three body parts. The legs were
still clothed in jeans. We called nearby residents and reported
the finding to police," Sarkudin was quoted as saying by
tempointeraktif.com.

According to an autopsy at the Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital in
Central Jakarta, the victim was believed to be a 20 year-old
scavenger.

"Looking at the soles (of his feet) we believe that he was a
scavenger. His soles are very thick and hard. I think he was
killed somewhere else, and thrown there," East Jakarta Police
chief Sr. Comr. Anang Iskandar told The Jakarta Post Tuesday.

Anag said officers had not yet been able to identify the
victim.

Three families that had come to the hospital had also been
unable to identify the body, he said.

"We are now concentrating on finding other body parts so that
we can identify him as well as find the motives behind the
killing," he said.

Police later found an axe nearby when they searched the
graveyard with dogs.

Anang said a nearby resident told police he had earlier seen a
car with two passengers dump a package in the area.