Iskandar Puteri district police chief ACP Noor Hashim Mohamad said a member of the public found the fully-clothed, partially decomposed body at 2.30pm.

“After digging out the body police estimated the victim, clad in a red T-shirt and denim shorts, to be aged between 18 and 40.

“We believe the victim had been dead for one or two weeks,” he said in a statement here today.

Preliminary investigations revealed the unidentified victim could have been a local as he had a vaccination scar on the left arm.

Noor Hashim said a battery jump-start cable was found next to the body.

There were strangulation marks and bruises on the body believed to have been from blunt force trauma, he added.

“The deceased, who had an earring on the left ear, wore a stainless steel ring engraved with ‘Forever Love’ on his right-hand middle finger,” he said.

The case is being investigated under Section 302 for murder.