Grisly legless body find: Two Pakistanis held

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In the span of less than six hours yesterday, two Pakistani men were nabbed as suspects in the case of the legless body found stuffed in a bloodied suitcase along Syed Alwi Road on Wednesday, and the victim’s legs were found in a luggage bag dumped at a cemetery nearby.

The victim is believed to be a 59-year-old Pakistani man, while the murder suspects are aged 25 and 43. It is unknown if the three are related, but TODAY understands they were all here on social visit passes.

Up till nearly noon yesterday, police officers were still canvassing residents and shopkeepers near where the body was found, showing them pictures of the two suspects.

Only hours later, though, at 3pm, they nabbed the duo at a tourist lodge along Rowell Road, which is only two streets away from the gruesome find.

And at around 8pm, the legs — dismembered at the thighs — were found in a piece of luggage at a Muslim cemetery at Jalan Kubor, a short distance from Syed Alwi Road. The cemetery, which is next to the Madrasah Aljunied Al Islamiah and close to Stamford Primary School, lies across Rochor River.

The suspects are being held for investigations for murder and will be taken to court tomorrow.

The scale of police operations resulting in the suspects being tracked down less than 24 hours after the dismembered body was discovered emerged in a news release the police issued yesterday evening.

Among the areas they covered was the nearby Mustafa Shopping Centre in Little India. A worker at the mall told Chinese evening dailies that when police officers showed him the pictures of two suspects yesterday morning, he instantly recognised the older man, who had bought a S$119 electric saw from them on Wednesday morning.

He added that the man, who was in the shop for only about five minutes, was captured on their surveillance footage, which police officers asked to view.

The legless body was discovered at about 6pm on Wednesday after eyewitnesses saw the bloodstained hands of an 81-year-old rag-and-bone man who was trying to heave a bag onto a shopping trolley.