Five people have been detained over the murder of a man whose body was found in the boot of a car dumped in a mining lake on Sunday.
Reports say the victim — identified as Saravanan Gopal, 29 — could have been killed due to a territorial dispute between rival gangs.
A similar murder had taken place in Kajang last week, the Malay Mail reports, which police say is linked to Saravanan’s murder.
“It is believed the suspects were killing off members from their rival gang over breach of territory,” a police source was quoted as saying.
Saravanan’s body was found in the trunk of a BMW that was submerged in a mining pool at Taman Putra Prima, Puchong. He was believed to have been killed five days prior to the discovery of his body.
Police had reportedly been led to the car’s location after interrogating the five suspects. Two of them were picked up on Saturday, the Malay Mail reports, while the others were caught from various areas in the Klang Valley.
The five are aged between 27 and 43.
Saravanan was reported missing last Monday after calls to his mobile phone went unanswered.
“His wife said he told her he was going out at 5pm and that was about it. She did not think much about it and she went out in another car with their two children,” a relative was quoted as saying.
Saravanan had been working at the circulation department of local business newspaper, The Malaysian Reserve.
