KUALA LUMPUR: Police had search a riverbank twice before discovering Zayn Rayyan Abdul Matiin's body at the same area here last night.
Petaling Jaya district police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Fakhrudin Abd Hamid said a search party comprising police and residents of Apartment Idaman, Damansara Damai combed the riverside area, but found nothing in their first two tries.
He said the location where Zayn Rayyan's body was found was just 200m from where he had last been seen by his mother, Ismanira Abdul Manaf, 28, on Tuesday.
"The search covered the area previously, but at that time, we didn't see him there. The location where the body was found is actually part of the waterway. We are conducting further investigation on the discovery," he said adding that the boy's remains have been sent to Universiti Malaya Medical Centre for a postmortem.
It is learnt that police have also cordoned of a 200m stretch between the place the boy was last seen and where his remains were found, in the hope of identifying his last trail and for evidence.
Meanwhile, Ismanira had reenacted the moments before her son went missing when speaking to the media in the afternoon yesterday (Wednesday).
In a video shot while speaking to reporters at her flat in Block R, Apartment Idaman, she showed the place where Zayn went missing.
She said Zayn had been walking a few steps behind her when they were heading towards the staircase to go up to their unit before he vanished.
They were returning home after Ismanira fetched the boy from school.
"My hands were full, as I was carrying some things back to the house, so I could not hold his hand to keep him close. It was a very short distance from the parking entrance to the staircase. When I took the first flight of stairs and turned around, he was missing," she was heard saying in the video.
Ismanira said she called out Zayn's name a few times but there was no answer.
She then went back to their apartment to leave the things she was carrying and returned to the ground floor to try to find her son.
"I came down again and called out his name, but there was no sign of him anywhere. I went to the nearby playground , thinking he might have gone to play there, but no, he was not there as well."
She added that she then alerted the residents in her neighbourhood and lodged a police report on the same day.
A team of 40 police personnel assisted by 60 residents launched a door-to-door search covering 2,484 residential units across 18 blocks.
The search team also consisted of the Fire and Rescue Department personnel, Civil Defence Force and sniffer dogs from the K9 police dog unit which covered the surrounding bushes, riverbank and drains.