Kuala Langat district police chief, Supt Zailan Tasir said the victim, Syaiyad Ali passport No. BC0214534, was found face down at a lane there by members of the public at about 11.45pm.
He said two eye-witnesses spoke of seeing a fire when passing by the beach area before coming upon the burnt body of a man.
“The police inspection conducted found the body of the victim, in his forties, to be almost 100 per cent burnt with wounds on his back and forehead, believed to have been inflicted with a sharp weapon.
“We don’t dismiss the possibility of the man being killed elsewhere before the body was brought to the beach area and burned, to remove any evidence,” he said in his SMS text, today.
Zailan said the victim was found to have a ring on each of his ring fingers, his passport in his wallet, and a RM20 and RM10 note in his shirt pocket.
The cap of a Castrol engine oil bottle was also found near the scene where the man’s body was found, he added.
The case is being investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder.