It had been a week since anyone had seen or heard from Musa Kang, who went missing on Nov. 3 in Erzurum after leaving home around 7 a.m. to walk to school, located 300 meters away. Local Police Chief Yusuf Çalkavur told the press yesterday that the special team assigned to locate the teenager had found his body on Monday night. “Every place you could think of across Erzurum was being searched. At the top of our list were abandoned buildings. Last [Monday] night around 9:30 p.m. our team came across the body as they searched a derelict building. The state prosecutor has taken over the case and is continuing the investigation,” he said.Kang was reportedly found with his wrists slit and his skull bashed in by rocks. Çalkavur emphasized that police were working to find the perpetrators of the crime. Kang’s body, found in the İstasyon district near a railroad warehouse area, was sent to the Aziziye Research Hospital for an autopsy. Police believe he was killed and his body dumped at the building, only 50 meters from a railroad security outpost, a number of days ago.
According to classmates, the seventh grader at Ömer Duygun Elementary School had last been seen in tears as he was taken away in the Habib Baba district by a young man of medium height wearing a cap. Footage from security surveillance cameras at two private workplaces in the area also indicated that Kang had been kidnapped, showing an unidentified young man, around 17 or 18 years of age, at his side.
