Decapitated head found in plastic bag
A man's head was found in a black plastic package left in front of a restaurant, here, at 4.30pm, today.
Penang CID chief SAC Mazlan Kesah said the head was found by the owner of the restaurant in Lorong Impian Ria 5, Taman Impian Ria, who then alerted the police. Police have yet to identify the victim.
A man's head was found in a black plastic package left in front of a restaurant in Bukit Mertajam at 4.30pm, today.
Penang CID chief SAC Mazlan Kesah said the head was found by the owner of the restaurant in Lorong Impian Ria 5, Taman Impian Ria, who then alerted the police.
Police have yet to identify the victim.
He said examination of the close circuit television (CCTV) from the shop found the package was left there by two men on a motorcycle at 9.30pm yesterday.
"We will continue to view the recordings of the CCTV obtained, other than those of nearby outlets," he told reporters at the scene tonight.
Mazlan said police did not rule out the victim was killed elsewhere, and his ears were cut off, before the head was dumped in front of the shop.
He said, based on the blood on the head, police believed the victim was killed in the last 24 hours.
Police urge those with information on the case to come forward to help in investigation.
The head was sent to the Seberang Jaya Hospital for a post-mortem.
Stabbed to death
Meanwhile, in Ipoh, an Indonesian man was stabbed to death after coming under attack by a group of men at a shopping mall yesterday.
Ipoh police chief Sum Chang Keong said in the 5.30pm incident, the victim Al-Amin, 31, a construction worker, was believed to have been attacked by 10 to 15 men, also Indonesians.
"Police on arrival at the scene at the first floor of the mall found his abdomen disemboweled," he told a press conference Ipoh today.
He said the body was sent to the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital and that no arrests had been made yet.
In a separate case, Sum said police smashed a robbery gang going by the name of 'Geng Lima Pagi' which was active in the Tambun and Bercham areas with the arrest of six of its members at various locations in the city recently.
He said the leader of this gang was a 17-year-old and that police seized various stolen items from the gang, among them a Trinity tablet, A Lenovo power Nokia, Samsung Grand and IPhone smartphones and a black Honda EX5 motorcycle.
- Bernama
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