A woman has lodged a missing person report which fits the description of a 12-year-old girl whose body was found floating in a flood mitigation pond in Kampung Boyan, Lorong Gurney, Jalan Semarak, on Tuesday.

Kuala Lumpur police chief Mohammad Sabtu Osman said today the report was lodged yesterday morning at the Dang Wangi police station and police were investigating the case.

He said the woman reported that her 12-year-old daughter went missing two days ago, the same day the half-naked body of a 12-year-old girl, with a piece of cloth tightened around her neck, was found floating in the pond.

"We are doing our level best to investigate and settle this case as soon as possible but I hope that people will stop speculating and making assumption that this case is related to the brutal killing of eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin on Sept 16, 2007, and five-year-old Sharlinie Mohd Nashar who went missing on Jan 9, 2008," he told reporters.

The body of the girl, who was yet to be identified, was found by three Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) workers who were cleaning the pond at about 11.30am.

On another development, Mohammed Sabtu warned the public not to attend an assembly planned for Sunday at Dataran Merdeka and circulated through the short messaging service (SMS).

He said this was because such assembly would be deemed illegal because as no application had been received to hold it.

He said police had received an SMS message urging Indians to gather at Dataran Merdeka on Sunday concerning the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination subjects.

- Bernama