Klang River project turns up 16 corpses in three years
The Home Ministry reported that the bodies were discovered at several points along the river project's area under various sets of circumstances.
'Some discoveries were made during river cleaning works, riverbed dredging or even during routine patrols by maintenance teams and enforcement agencies.
'However, post-mortem examinations of the 16 bodies have found no identifiable criminal elements.
'This is due to the bodies already being severely decomposed at the time of discovery,' the ministry said in a parliamentary written reply dated Wednesday (Aug 13).
The ministry was responding to a question from Datuk Dr Ahmad Yunus Hairi (PN-Kuala Langat) on the number of bodies found during the implementation of the project.
He had also asked what further actions were being taken to determine any connection between reported deaths and the bodies found.
Earlier in June this year, news of the gruesome discovery of over 10 corpses, which included an infant, by workers of the flood mitigation project, sent shockwaves throughout Malaysian society.
The bodies were discovered over a three-year span by workers after works to deepen the Klang River began on Nov 1, 2022.
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