Police find parts of mutilated body of man

Nana Rukmana, The Jakarta Post, Cirebon

Police found the feet and hands of a man on a beach here on Thursday evening only two days after other parts of the same body were discovered under a bridge on Jl. Cipto Mangunkusumo.

Franky, a worker at the morgue of the Gunung Jati hospital here said that the feet and hands matched the other parts of the body, found on Tuesday afternoon by a scavenger.

The first discovery was of three plastic bags, which contained the head and parts of the legs.

"The pair of feet and hands have not decayed, although they might have been thrown into the sea about two or three days ago," Franky was quoted as saying by Antara.

The piece of cloth found in the bags matched the fabric attached to the mutilated body parts found on the beach, he said, and both the skin color and the sever marks on the feet matched.

Tattoos of a dragon and the sun were spotted on the right foot and of a scorpion on the left foot, the feet of a dragon on the right hand and the tail of a dragon on the left hand.

Police have yet to discover the identity of the body.

Dr. Hiesna Santaka told reporters at the hospital on Tuesday that the body parts were believed to be of a young man aged between 17 and 20.

The man had fair skin, long hair with a small ponytail and had slanting eyes. He wore a pair of blue jeans and a long-sleeved shirt that had a red CD in the pocket.

Hiesna said the man had been cruelly tortured before he was killed.

Cirebon Police chief Adj. Comr. Siswandi told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday that it was the first time that such an incident had occurred in Cirebon.

Siswandi said he thought that Cirebon was only the dumping ground for a murder committed outside the town, in order to fool the police.

He urged families from which any member might have gone missing to contact him.