Female Body Found at Incheon Arabatgil Canal...

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[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Kim Yeon-ju] The gender of the body found last month in the Incheon Ara Waterway canal has been confirmed as female.

Incheon Gyeyang Police Station announced on the 4th that they had requested a DNA analysis of part of the body found in the Ara Waterway canal on the 29th of last month from the National Forensic Service (NFS), which confirmed the body to be female.

However, when compared with the DNA database (DB) held by the NFS and others, no matching genetic information was found, so the exact identity, including age, has not been determined.

Earlier, at around 3:24 p.m. on the 29th of last month, part of a body was discovered in the canal near Danamgyo Bridge on the Gyeongin Ara Waterway in Gyeyang-gu, Incheon.

At that time, police who responded to a report from a passerby jogging on the bicycle path next to the Ara Waterway began investigating the possibility that it was related to a murder case that occurred in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, but it was confirmed that the DNA did not match.

Considering the damaged state of the female body, the police are reportedly focusing on the possibility that it is related to another violent crime.

The police plan to continue search operations to find the rest of the body and will also collect and compare DNA from families of missing persons in the surrounding area to identify the victim.

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