GEORGE TOWN: A dead Indonesian man with his left leg chained to a chair was found in the parking lot of an apartment block in Jelutong here on Friday (April 22).

       Timur Laut OCPD Asst Comm Soffian Santong said the blood-stained body of the 33-year-old man was found by residents there at about 5.40 pm on Friday.

       "Based on a preliminary investigation, the victim and another man, who is a 52-year-old local, shared a rented apartment unit there that had been turned into a homestay since April 13.

       "According to a delivery rider, who is also a witness, he sent meals to their apartment every day at 1 pm and 5 pm, with the last delivery made at 5 pm Friday to one of the men," he said when contacted here Saturday (April 23).

       Soffian said the man's body was sent to the Penang Hospital for an autopsy, which will be conducted on Monday (April 25), and police were still conducting further investigations into the incident.

       Soffian said the motive was as yet unknown and police were tracking down the man who stayed with the victim to assist in investigations.

       He said police did not find any signs of a fight or struggle in the apartment and were still probing the purpose of their stay in Penang.

       "We found the victim's passport and he is believed to have come from Dumai, Indonesia, on March 23. We are (still) tracing the man who lived with him because we believe he knows about the incident," he said, adding that the police have classified the case as sudden death pending the post-mortem report.

       Earlier on social media, pictures of the body of a man covered in blood with his legs tied with an iron chain to a chair had gone viral. He was said to have fallen from the eighth floor of the apartment and suffered injuries to the head and body. - Bernama