GEORGE TOWN, February 26 — A 13-year-old secondary school student was found dead after she was believed to have fallen from a high-rise apartment at Krystal Heights in Gelugor yesterday morning.
Northeast district police said they received a report at about 9.20am that a teenage girl was lying below the apartment building and suspected to have fallen.
The victim, identified as Chen Mei Xin, was pronounced dead at the scene. She was reportedly wearing her school sports attire and shoes, and a black school bag was later found nearby.
According to her identity card, she lived in the Sungai Ara area and was not a resident of the apartment. Preliminary police investigations at the scene found no elements of foul play.
The body has been sent to the Forensic Medicine Department at Hospital Pulau Pinang for a post-mortem.
Authorities have urged the public not to speculate on the incident to avoid causing public anxiety while investigations are being conducted from all angles.
