The police have set up a special team headed by Federal CID director Christopher Wan Soo Kee to investigate the brutal murder of Nurin Jazlin Jazimin.

"I view this case very seriously and we are gathering information. This probe team has special strategies and their own networking to nab the murderer.

"At the moment, I cannot reveal the strategies and their modus operandi in investigating this case because if we reveal everything, the suspect will flee," Inspector-General of Police Musa Hasan told Bernama.

The police chief also did not rule out the possibility of the suspect fleeing the Klang Valley following the extensive media coverage on the case.

"I want all parties to cooperate in this case and not to make speculations in the media. We are trying our level best," he said.

Nurin, 8, a Year Two pupil of Sekolah Kebangsaan Desa Setapak, went missing on Aug 20 when she went on her own to a night market near her home at Section One in Wangsa Maju.

She was last seen being dragged into a white van by a man.

On Monday, an employee of a book distribution company found a sports bag at a shoplot in Petaling Utama and brought into her working place, thinking that it belonged to her boss.

Her boss later opened the bag and discovered a naked body of a girl believed to be between six and nine-year-old in a foetal position in the brand new bag.

Police later found bruise marks on her neck, suggesting strangulation, and a brinjal and a cucumber inserted in her private parts.

A DNA test yesterday confirmed the body was that of Nurin.

Remains buried

Meanwhile, it is learnt that police have recorded statements from a man who was seen near the shoplot a day before the sports bag bearing Nurin's body was found.

Police believe the man could provide vital information to solve the case.

Police are also viewing recordings of closed-circuit television cameras installed in adjacent buildings of the shoplot.

In a related development, Nurin's father Jazimin Abdul Jalil finally came to terms with the death of his daughter and claimed her body from the Kuala Lumpur Hospital mortuary this morning.

Yesterday, Jazimin had refused to accept that the girl's body found in the sports bag was that of his daughter.

This morning, Jazimin could not control his emotions and was in tears as he went through the procedures of claiming the body of Nurin.

The girl's remains were handed over to her father at 11.15 am. After a short prayer, the body was taken to a van.

At the family's, Nurin's mother, Norazian Bistaman anxiously waited for her husband's return with their daughter, fondly called "Kak Ngah" by family members and neighbours.

Nurin was buried after Friday prayers at the Wangsa Maju Muslim cemetery.