KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: A 78-year-old woman was found dead with her throat slashed at her house in Persiaran Bukit Rahman Putra Sungei Buloh near here last evening. She also had stab wounds on her head.

Police, upon receiving information on the incident, found her blood-covered body on a chair in the living room at 5.30pm.

Petaling Jaya Deputy OCPD Supt Mohd Shukor Sulong said police recovered a kitchen knife under the chair where the victim was found.

He said the victim, who had yet to be identified, was believed to have been killed about an hour before her body was found.

He also said there was no sign of forced entry into the house and nothing was missing.

Meanwhile, the partly-burnt body of a Myanmar man identified only as Harun, 32, was found behind a staircase of a shoplot near the wholesale market in Selayang last night.

A police spokesman said a passer-by had spotted flames behind the staircase and thought it was a pile of rubbish on fire.

He took a pail of water and doused the flames only to discover that it was a man's body.

Police arrested a man about 100m away from the scene in connection with the case. The suspect had earlier been seen fighting with Harun.