JOHOR BARU - The remains of a 16-year-old girl who went missing last month have been found at a graveyard.
The charred body of Nurrahayu Qomarodin (pic) was discovered by police at the graveyard in Masai on Sunday evening.
She was initially believed to have been abducted. However, it is learnt that the teenager was robbed and murdered and her body burnt twice at two separate areas before her remains were dumped at the graveyard.
Her father Qomarodin Abdullah, 47, said yesterday that Nurrahayu did not return home after going out for dinner with her boyfriend on June 18.
The family lodged a police report on her disappearance on June 20.Qomarodin said his daughter, the youngest of two siblings, was an intelligent and loving girl but she began to behave strangely about a week before she went missing.
“She did not want to go to school. She just wanted to be with her family,” he said.
The police, he said, had yet to recover some of his daughter’s body parts, including the head.
Seri Alam OCPD Supt Roslan Zainuddin said police had detained a 47-year-old security guard in connection with the case.
“We believe the victim was initially a robbery target as she often collected the daily earnings from her father who works as a canteen operator in a quarry,” he said.
