Woman found dead in motel room

Woman found dead in motel room

JAKARTA (JP): The corpse of an unidentified woman was found in
a motel room on Jl. RE Martadinata in Ancol, North Jakarta, by
motel staff on Sunday night.

City police spokesman Sr. Comr. Anton Bahrul Alam said on
Monday that police suspected the woman, whose corpse was found
naked, had been assaulted.

"We are still awaiting identification of the woman. She had
gone to stay at the motel with a man, on Saturday. She was
supposed to check out of the motel on Sunday, but she hadn't,"
Anton told reporters on Monday.

"Curious motel staff kept banging on her door but nobody
answered. Finally, they entered the room using the master key,
and found the corpse."

Staff at the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital morgue said
that forensic pathologists estimated the woman had been dead for
at least two days.

"She was about 25 years old, weighed 50 kilograms, was 140
centimeters in height, and her body was badly bruised," a staff
member at the morgue said. (ylt)