Police Probe Death of Woman Found in Container at Tanjung Priok Port
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19 January 2024 12:20 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Police are investigating the case of a dead body found in a container at Tanjung Priok Port. First Inspector I Gusti Ngurah Putu Krishna Narayana, the Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Tanjung Priok Port Police, said five witnesses have been questioned thus far.
“Three witnesses from the crime scene and two witnesses from the management of the delivery service,” Ngurah said on Thursday, January 18.
The witnesses from the crime scene are a worker and two security officers of PT SPIL. The dead body was first discovered by workers who would load goods into the 20-foot green container at the patchwork yard in Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta.
The workers first smelled a foul smell from inside the empty container. After opening it, they found the decomposing body of a woman.
Ngurah said the container had passed through Surabaya, East Java, on Jan. 1. “We are still tracking [its previous journey],” he said.
The dead woman had curly hair and was not wearing any clothes, only shorts. Around the body was a bag with a picture of a teddy bear, two t-shirts, light blue underwear, a bottle of mineral water, a plastic bag containing granulated sugar, a purple and black striped sarong, and Rp5,000 notes.
Ngurah said the victim, aged between 50 and 55, had been dead for between two and 10 weeks. There were no signs of violence based on her physical characteristics. "There were signs of oxygen deprivation," he added.
The identity of the dead woman remains unknown, and the body has been taken to the Kramat Jati Police Hospital for an autopsy.
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