Malaysian authorities have found the body of an unidentified foreign man in a suburb on the outskirts of its capital, Kuala Lumpur, where police have been searching for a British backpacker who went missing last week.
Local police launched a search operation in the affluent neighbourhood of Bangsar in a bid to find Jordan Johnson-Doyle after his father filed a missing persons report on Monday.
The 25-year-old reportedly went missing on May 27 after taking part in a quiz night at a pub in the area.
Police said a search team found the decomposed body at the bottom of a flooded lift shaft at a construction site at about 5pm on Wednesday. It was lying face down with most of its clothes off.
“It has not been established whether the body is that of a United Kingdom national who was recently reported missing,” Brickfields district police chief Ku Mashariman Ku Mahmood was quoted as saying by national newswire Bernama late Wednesday.
The body has since been moved to a nearby hospital for postmortem and identification, Ku Mashariman said.
