Charles Ramendran
The Sun

KAJANG: Police have arrested three Pakistani men, including a security guard, in connection with the rape and murder of a Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) student on Thursday.

The guard, who is an employee of a security company hired to patrol Bandar Mahkota Cheras where the student stayed, had not turned up for work after Tang Lai Meng, 20, was found dead.

She was found clad only in a T-shirt with her hands bound behind her back and a pillow case coiled around her neck, in her rented double-storey terrace house.

The three men are aged between 26 and 35.

Sources said that early yesterday, the guard was picked up when he finally reported for duty. It is learnt the two other Pakistani men are the housemates of the guard who lived in a flat in the same housing estate.

Police have recorded a statement from several people, including neighbours and a close male friend of the victim who visited her often at the house.

Earlier reports had stated that police were looking for the victim’s housemates. But investigators have since determined that Tang was the sole occupant of the house on Jalan Putera 4/1 in Seksyen 1.

Sources also said the master bedroom she stayed in was the only room in the house that was furnished.

Police said a post-mortem report showed that the victim, a star student who was doing her degree in business administration at UTAR’s Bandar Sungai Long campus, was also sodomised. Ulu Langat police chief ACP Rosli Mohd Nizam said anyone with information should call the district CID at 03-8736 2222