Two women have been detained to facilitate investigations into a case where the body of an Indonesian maid was brought here from Malacca in the truck of a car last Thursday.

The duo were picked up early yesterday after lodging a report at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital police beat base over the death of the 30-year-old maid, believed to have been due to illness.

The maid died at her employer's house in Melaka Tengah.

Bukit Aman CID deputy chief (investigations/law) Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said the two women comprised a maid employment agency worker and a private hospital nurse.

It was reported that the dead woman’s employer had called the maid agency that the Indonesian was seriously ill.

The agent went to employer’s house with a friend. But to their horror, on arrival they discovered that the maid had died. The agent was told by the dead maid’s employer to take care of the woman’s remains.

The duo subsequently put the body in the boot of their car and drove to Kuala Lumpur to find a undertaker.

However, the undertaker refused to cremate the body as there was no death certificate. The women then took the body to Kuala Lumpur Hospital.     

Police said that the arrests of the pair bring to eight, the number of people picked up in connection with the maid's death.

The others are an employment agent, employer, employer's friend and a taxi driver.

The six, aged between 20 and 50, were detained separately at various locations here and Malacca.

Post-mortem: Maid murdered

In Malacca , a post-mortem report has revealed that the Indonesian maid was bludgeoned to death.

According to the report, a blunt object was used to inflict the fatal injuries on the victim's chest and abdomen.

The police have classified the case as murder.

Melaka Tengah police chief ACP Salehhudin Abd Rahman said the victim, identified as Nurul Aida, 31, had been working for her employer in Taman Peringgit Jaya here, since last September.

He told a news conference today that the woman from Bokak, Indonesia, had entered the country legally but her passport expired last year.

He said the police had obtained a seven-day remand order to detain those arrested.

- Bernama