Bone fragments found belong to Bella, says sister

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The bone fragments belonging to Mila Sharmila Samsusah, affectionately known as Bella, were buried in her final resting place at Banang Heights burial ground in Batu Pahat, Johor on Saturday (March 30).  Bella's elder sister Norhisham Samsusah, shared the news on her  Facebook page after her family reclaimed the remains from from Sultan Ismail Hospital (HSI), Johor Baru.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/5ahw3epv  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 The bone fragments belonging to Mila Shamila Samsusa, affectionately known as Bella, were

00:07 laid to rest in her final resting place at Banang Heights Burial Ground after her family

00:12 reclaimed them from Sultan Ismail Hospital in Johor Bahru.

00:16 Bella's elder sister Norhisham Samsusa shared a video of the burial on her Facebook page

00:21 on Saturday.

00:23 In an earlier post, Norhisham had asked for strength to be given to her family following

00:27 the identification of six bone fragments discovered two months ago in Tongkak Pecha now confirmed

00:33 to belong to Bella.

00:35 Norhisham also on Friday expressed her family's hope for the swift recovery of Bella's missing

00:40 leg and spine fragments.

00:42 The mysterious disappearance of Bella on December 14 was finally unraveled after bone fragments

00:48 were unearthed in an abandoned house at Kampung Batu 7, Tongkak Pecha on December 19.

00:55 Subsequent DNA tests positively linked the remains to the 32-year-old, leading to the

01:00 arrest of a suspect and two accomplices.

01:03 It was reported on December 14 that Bella, a single mother of two children, vanished

01:09 after leaving her house in her boyfriend's car clad in a dark blue kaftan, supposedly

01:14 to tend to laundry at a nearby laundromat.

01:17 On January 24, a former postman was charged in the magistrate's court in Batu Pahat with

01:23 the murder of his girlfriend in Tongkak Pecha.

01:26 Twenty-five-year-old Mohamed Haikal Mahfouz was charged with murdering Bella between 11

01:31 p.m. on December 14 and 5.30 a.m. on December 15 last year.

01:37 The charge, framed under Section 302 of the Penal Code, carries the death penalty.

01:43 On February 28, six bone fragments, including those of the thighs, elbow and shin, were

01:49 discovered at the same location where Bella's remains were found.

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