Scolded by wife, man kills Bangladeshi worker

PARIT: Upset after he was reprimanded by his wife, a man allegedly killed a Bangladeshi worker and threw the body into Sungai Kinta in Kampung Gajah last Tuesday.

Perak Tengah district police chief Mohamad Zainal Abdullah said on the day of the incident, the 21-year-old suspect told his wife that he had gone for a meal with the victim, a farm hand at his family’s cattle farm in Kampar.

However, Zainal said when the suspect’s wife questioned the worker, he denied going out with her husband.

“Angered that the victim had created a tiff between him and his wife, the suspect killed the victim and dumped his body in the river,” he said in a statement today.

Police arrested the suspect at his home in Kampar at 3.15pm yesterday.

“Initial investigations revealed the victim was killed on Dec 15, before being dumped into the river 10km from the family farm,” he said.

The suspect has been remanded for seven days, beginning today, and the case is being investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder.

On Dec 18, the body of the victim, MD Ovaidul Khan, 32, was found stuck to a tree in Sungai Kinta. The right leg was tied to a motorcycle, believed to have been done to keep the body submerged. -FMT