BATU PAHAT – Police have confirmed that the human skeletal remains found on June 24 in bushes near a durian orchard at Jalan Yong Peng, belong to a teenager reported missing since May 26.
Acting Batu Pahat police chief Shahrulanuar Mushaddat Abdullah said that the confirmation of the identity of the remains as belonging to Hafiz Fauzan Abdul Halid, 16, was based on DNA profiling analysis done by the Johor branch of the Chemistry Department.
He said that DNA profiles obtained from blood samples taken for comparison purposes matched those of the biological parents with a 99.99% probability of parentage with the remains found.
"The identity of the human remains is Hafiz Fauzan Abdul Halid, a 16-year-old Malay male residing in Bandar Putera Indah, Batu Pahat, Johor. He was reported missing since May 26,” he said in a statement yesterday.
Meanwhile, his father, Abd Halid Sugiman, 44, expressed gratitude upon receiving confirmation of the DNA results after nearly a month of searching for his third child.
“The remains will be claimed tomorrow morning (July 5) and buried on the same day at the Batu 7 Muslim Cemetery, Tongkang Pechah,” he said. – July 5, 2024
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