OGDJ In South Kalimantan Tapin Found Has Become A Skull In The Forest

Illustration of the corpse (ANTARA)

RANTAU - Residents found skulls and bones suspected of being human bodies in the bush forest of Salam Babaris Village, Tapin Regency, South Kalimantan. Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Tapin Police, AKP Haris Wicaksono, said the skull was suspected to be a resident of Salam Babaris who was declared missing some time ago. "Three months ago it was declared missing, an ODGJ," he said when confirmed, quoted by ANTARA, Monday, September 12. The results of identification of the skull, said Haris, were proven by the family from clothes attached to the victim's skeleton. "It is known from the clothes worn," he said. However, Haris revealed that the family refused to take further action or an autopsy to identify the cause of death.

"The family refused further examination," he said. Haris said the human body frame was suspected to be male with evidence found of pants, clothes and caps at the scene. Currently, the Tapin Police have handed over the victim's skull and bones to the family for further burial.