A spokesman for the Perak fire and rescue department said the bone fragments were found by a search and rescue team at 2.45pm today.

“The victim’s remains were handed over to the police for further action,” said the spokesman in a statement.

The spokesman also said the search and rescue operation had been suspended temporarily due to weather conditions, but the operation will resume tomorrow morning.

Yesterday, Perak fire and rescue department director Azmi Osman said the wreckage of an excavator believed to have been buried in the quarry rockfall incident was located at 11.45am, while skeletal remains and clothes were found approximately half an hour later.

In the incident on March 8, two quarry workers, Itam Lasoh, 43, and Kheow Loo Siew Soon, 49, were believed to have been buried under a rubble of rocks.