Jerantut: A mentally disabled man reported missing since June 2 in Jerantut was found dead today.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, Pahang police chief Datuk Seri Yahaya Othman stated that the body of 36-year-old Sabri Ismail was discovered by a search and rescue team at around 10.20 am. Yahaya mentioned that the body was located approximately 300 metres from where Sabri was last seen, near the Taman Sri Embun residential area in Jerantut on June 2.

‘The remains have been sent to the Jerantut Hospital forensics department for post-mortem,’ Yahaya said when contacted today. Yesterday, the media reported that police had sought public assistance to locate Sabri following a missing persons report lodged on Saturday.