Woman found dead at boardinghouse

Woman found dead at boardinghouse

JAKARTA (JP): A 43-year-old woman was found dead in her
boardinghouse on Jl. Pegangsaan I, Rawa Terate subdistrict in
East Jakarta yesterday morning.

A forensic examination of the woman, Muksinah, found injuries
suggesting she might have been murdered between 12 a.m. and 3
a.m. yesterday.

The unmarried woman was on the administrative staff at a tax
service office in Senen, Central Jakarta. Her landlady found the
body after becoming suspicious over Muksinah's failure to show up
in the morning.

"Muksinah never failed to say goodbye to her landlady every
time she left for work," Luci, one of the deceased's friends,
said.

Luci quoted the landlady as saying that she did not see
anybody enter Muksinah's room. The windows and the door were
reportedly properly shut.

Zulhasmar Syamsu, a forensic expert at Cipto Mangunkusumo
General Hospital, said Muksinah died of suffocation, judging from
an injury on her neck.

"She had a choke mark around her neck. Her lips were injured.
There was also a mark on her right chest suggesting she had been
hit by a blunt object," he said.

Zulhasmar also said that there were no indications of rape.
(ivy)