The body of a young girl found stuffed in a sports bag has been identified through DNA test as belonging to eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin who has been missing since Aug 20.

According to Bernama , Petaling Jaya police chief ACP Arjunaidi Mohamed said blood tests on the body and Nurin's parents confirmed their blood ties.

Nurin, a Standard Two pupil of Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Desa Setapak, was reported missing on Aug 20 after going alone to a night market near her house at Section 1 in Wangsa Maju.

The body of a naked girl, believed to have been sexually abused, was found by a shophouse owner at Jalan PJS 1 on Monday morning.

Upon hearing the news, Nurin's distraught parents continue to refuse to accept the DNA result that the girl's body was their daughter's.

"I am Nurin's father...I know my daughter better than anyone else. My heart is saying the body is not my daughter," Bernama quoted Jazimin Abdul Jalil, 33, as saying.

"If police ask me to take the body, I will accept, I will perform the funeral rites and bury it. But I want the police to pursue the search for Nurin because I know Nurin is still safe out there," the taxi driver told reporters outside the Kuala Lumpur Hospital mortuary.

Still hopeful

He said that he was sure the body was not his daughter's based on her teeth and the scar, adding that his daughter had no gaps in her teeth and had a scar on her thigh.

Jazimin said he was informed of the DNA test result at 12.30pm by the Petaling Jaya police who summoned him to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital mortuary to identify the body.

Jazimin and his wife, Norazian Bistaman, 35, who were called to the hospital for identification on Monday did not accept that the body was their daughter based on the physical condition of the girl's body.

"What else can I say. The DNA test shows she is my daughter. I will accept the will of God," said Norazian.

"As a mother, I still hope the body is not my daughter's. No mother will accept the reality that her daughter was raped and killed brutally," she was quoted as saying.

"Only God knows the extent of my sadness and grief," she said in tears.