The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement that a severed human limb was found floating in the sea near the Taipa Ferry Terminal yesterday morning and they have preliminarily concluded that the case was not criminally induced.
The statement said that after Macau Customs Service officers moved the severed limb to the shore, they notified the Judiciary Police at 10:55 a.m. of the case, requesting PJ officers to go to the scene to investigate.
The statement did not elaborate on the severed human limb.
The statement said that after an initial examination of the severed limb, PJ officers preliminarily concluded that it had earlier been part of a dead body found floating off the Zone A land reclamation area, which lies off the peninsula’s north-eastern coast, on Saturday last week.
The statement underlined that neither the severed limb found yesterday nor the body found last week showed any injuries that could have been caused by foul play.
The Judiciary Police are conducting DNA tests to determine “the origin” of the severed limb, the statement said.
According to a PJ statement on Saturday last week, a male body was found floating off the Zone A coast, near the ongoing flyover project connecting Zone A and the peninsula near the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal in Zape, that morning. The flyover is officially known as A3.
Last week’s statement, which identified the deceased as a middle-aged non-local man, said that the body had no injuries that could have been caused by foul play.
Male body found floating off Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal
Meanwhile, a separate PJ statement yesterday said that a male body was found floating in the sea near the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal in Zape yesterday morning.
The statement said that after Macau Customs Service officers transported the body to the waterfront next to the ferry terminal, they notified the Judiciary Police at 8:50 a.m. of the case, requesting PJ officers to go to the scene to investigate.
The statement said that a preliminary examination of the body showed that the deceased had no injuries that could have been caused by foul play.
The statement said that the identity of the deceased has yet to be confirmed, but described the deceased as a middle-aged man.
A post-mortem examination will be performed to determine the exact cause of death, the statement said, adding that the case has been classified as dead-body found.
