JOHOR BARU, May 29 -- Police are probing the identity of a young girl whose body was recently found floating in Sungai Skudai here.

Johor Baru North police chief Assistant Commissioner Balveer Singh Mahindar Singh said police have yet to determine the child's status, including her citizenship or whether she had been reported missing.

"Police have yet to identify the child's identity.

"Initial investigations revealed that the body was that of a girl between the age of five and seven.

"Investigators are also in the midst of identifying the cause of the child's death," he said in a statement yesterday.

Balveer was responding to the discovery of a child's body found floating in Sungai Skudai on Sunday.

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