KAMPAR: Initial pathology report on the pile of bones that were found at Gua Kandu in Gopeng here has revealed that they belonged to a human.
Kampar district police chief Superintendent Hasron Nazri Hashim said based on the forensic test conducted on the bones, it also disclosed that the bones were decade-old.
“The test was completed yesterday afternoon at the Forensic Department of Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital in Ipoh and the initial result showed that the pile of bones belonged to a human and they were old,” he said, adding that the bones have now been taken to the Chemical Department in Petaling Jaya, Selangor for a DNA test.
“At 2pm yesterday, we have also taken blood specimen from one of Mohammad Ashraf Hassan’s family members at Kampar Hospital here for the DNA test,” he said in a press conference at Kampar district police station here today.
Hasron Nazri said the matching of the DNA would be done to identify whether the bones were related to the 29-year-old missing runner, Mohammad Ashraf.
He added that the result of the test would take about one or two months and the police would do all they could to speed up the process.
Asked if the search and rescue (SAR) operation to locate Mohammad Ashraf, or better known as Acap, was still being carried out by the villagers after the discovery of the bones, Hasron Nazri said it was still being conducted by smaller teams with permission from the police.
On Sunday, a group of villagers scouring the jungle for missing runner Mohamad Ashraf, who vanished without a trace on March 23, discovered a pile of bones at Gua Kandu in Gopeng near here.
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