Three corpses found at separate locations
Three corpses found at separate locations
JAKARTA (JP): Three corpses, one of a baby girl, were found at
separate locations in Jakarta over the weekend.
Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Anton Bahrul Alam said on
Sunday that the latest corpse, that of a baby girl, was
discovered by a 60-year-old security guard, Kosim, in a Supermi
noodle carton under the Ancol flyover at Jl. Lodan in North
Jakarta earlier in the day.
Kosim, who lives in the Lodan area, found the carton
containing the dead baby girl at around 1.30 a.m. He immediately
reported the find to Pademangan police station.
"The baby remains unidentified. Pathologists will soon perform
a postmortem examination on the baby to find out exactly how she
died."
Anton said that the remaining corpses, those of a Brunei
national and a woman, were found on Saturday.
The corpse of the unidentified woman, aged about 25, was found
naked in a room in the Hotel Astika on Jl. Mangga Besar Raya, in
West Jakarta by members of the hotel's staff.
Cipto Mangunkusumo general hospital morgue attendants said
that "a lot of white-colored froth" was present in the corpse's
mouth and nose.
"She could have died of a drug overdose ... but who gave her
the drugs? Were they her own or someone else's? We don't know
yet," an attendant, who requested anonymity, told reporters on
Sunday.
Anton said the unidentified woman was suspected of being a
prostitute.
A man had brought her to the hotel at 1 a.m. on Saturday, and
later left without the knowledge of the hotel staff. His name, or
false name as it may turn out, is recorded in the hotel's
register," Anton said.
The other corpse found on Saturday was that of 50-year-old
Brunei Darussalam national Hasan bin H. Abdulgani.
The corpse was found in a room of a hotel in Central Jakarta.
"Police are questioning the woman who was with the man in the
room," Central Jakarta Police chief of detectives Adj. Comr.
Yoyol told reporters on Sunday.
"Hasan looked healthy when he paid for the room, but then a
member of the hotel's staff received a call from the woman in the
room reporting that Hasan had died suddenly." (ylt)