Severed head meets body in Purworejo

JAKARTA (JP): A severed head discovered in Jakarta last Friday matched a body found in Bajan, a district of the Central Java city of Purworejo, Jakarta Police chief Maj. Gen. Noegroho Djajoesman said on Monday.

"But we are still waiting for the results of blood tests before making a final conclusion about whether the two parts really match," Noegroho told The Jakarta Post in a telephone interview.

The head of a teenage boy was found by a bus conductor at the Kampung Rambutan bus terminal in East Jakarta on Friday.

A group of city police detectives took the head on Saturday to Banjan, where the body of a teenage boy was discovered.

The victim's identity has not yet been established and police are continuing their investigation into the murder. (ylt/04)