RESIDENTS of a Johor apartment block found a dead body in the block's water tank on Monday, after they complained of a reddish tint and foul odour emitting from their running taps.
The corpse found in the tank has been identified as that of Ms Zhong Yufang, 19. She is believed to have drowned after she fell into the tank six days ago.
The tank is located on the ground floor of a five-storey, walk-up apartment at First Garden estate in Pontian, about 60km north-west of Johor Baru.
Preliminary police investigations found that Ms Zhong had gone to visit her 70-year-old father on the second storey of the block last Wednesday. She somehow slipped and fell through a roof covering the water tank room.
At around noon that day, a neighbour living on the same storey heard a loud 'thud' and saw a huge hole in the roof of the water tank room, but he did not tell anyone about it as he did not see anything unusual, police said.
Over the weekend, residents started to complain that water from the tank was emitting a foul smell. At around 4pm on Monday, a resident went into the water tank room and found a decaying, female corpse floating in the water.
Neighbours say Ms Zhong lived elsewhere with her mother and siblings and regularly visited her old father.
source : asiaone