IPOH: The police arrested four foreign men yesterday for suspected involvement in the murder of a foreign man at a house in Buntong here yesterday .
Perak police chief Datuk Mior Faridalathrash Wahid said the suspects, 33 to 46, who were related to the victim, were detained at 1.15 pm yesterday.
He said the police received a report from a man, 40, that his brother, 37, was found unconscious at a house at 9.20 am yesterday.
“Preliminary investigations at the scene of the incident revealed that the victim was unconscious on the floor, with a pillow and blanket and was confirmed dead by medical officers and the case was classified as a sudden death,” he said in a statement tonight.
Mior Faridalathrash said that the autopsy subsequently revealed that the victim died due to injuries to his abdominal area inflicted by a blunt object.
“The case was reclassified under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder,” he said.
The police also found a steel hammer believed to be the murder weapon, he said, adding that the suspects would be brought to the Ipoh Magistrate’s Court to be remanded today. — Bernama