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Guro police plan arrest warrant applications for suspects in body abandonment and instigation case

Seoul's Guro Police Station plans to apply for arrest warrants on the 28th, following further investigation, for a man in his 60s suspected of abandoning a body and a man in his 80s suspected of instigating its abandonment.

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Seoul's Guro Police Station plans to apply for arrest warrants on the 28th for a man in his 60s identified as A, suspected of abandoning a body, and a man in his 80s identified as B, suspected of instigating its abandonment. Police plan to conduct further investigation before applying for the warrants.

Police identified the two men the previous afternoon through CCTV footage, inquiries and other investigative work. They made emergency arrests at the men's respective homes, one after the other, and completed initial suspect questioning.

B claimed that he had instructed someone to discard an object that looked like a doll from a building he owned, without knowing it was a body.

A told investigators that he suspected it might be a body while abandoning it but was merely following B's instructions.

Police believe A acted alone in abandoning the body on the morning of the 22nd under B's instructions. Whether B specified the exact location has not been established.

A sanitation worker employed by the Guro District Office discovered the body. The worker found it at a residential waste collection point in Guro at about 11 a.m. the previous day and reported it to police.

Police plan to establish the deceased's identity and cause of death through an autopsy by the National Forensic Service. They also plan to investigate the circumstances of the suspects' alleged offenses and whether they were involved in the death.