THE father of a Chinese national missing here since late April
was yesterday called in by the police to identify the partial body
found in Bedok Reservoir.
Mr Lin Zuliang, 48, had come to Singapore from China's Zhejiang
province to look for his son Lin Xiao, 23, who left for work at 8am
on April 28 and has not been seen since.
He declined to speak to reporters at the mortuary yesterday, but
it is believed that he thinks the remains are those of his son,
going by the belt and jeans that the body was clad in.
The younger Mr Lin, an apprentice at Lee Sheng Motor Works,
lived with his mother in Chai Chee, and was last seen wearing a
dark blue T-shirt with a red collar and faded jeans.
The New Paper reported last month that his parents, who are
divorced, had come together to offer $10,000 to anyone who could
tell them where their missing son was.
The older Mr Lin came here in the middle of last month to scour
the island for his missing son; his ex-wife Hu Ping Zhu, a
43-year-old hawker, also spent nights searching for him and putting
up 30 flyers.
-- ST
