TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Man wearing condom found dead in hotel room
Change Size
Crime scene tape (Shutterstock/File)
Residents of Sengkang in Wajo regency, South Sulawesi, were shocked after a man was found dead inside a hotel room.
The body was discovered by a room clerk at a budget hotel on Jl. Andi Macca Amirullah in Tempe district at 6 p.m. on Saturday.
The dead man was naked and wore a condom.
The hotel's CCTV footage showed that the man had visited the hotel with a woman at 11.45 a.m. on Saturday. They went straight to the room.
(Read also: Mother, toddler held at knifepoint inside angkot minivan in East Jakarta)
Police are still investigating the case and searching for the woman. "We did not find any identity [document] on him," Tempe Police chief Adj. Comr. Ilyas Dohan said, as quoted by kompas.com.
Police confiscated two opened condom packages and a motorcycle from the crime scene as potential evidence and sent the body to the Lamaddukelleng Regional Hospital for an autopsy.
"We are still waiting for the report from laboratory to find out the reason of his death," Wajo Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Noviana Tursanurrohmad said. (rdi/bbs)
