Two local residents said they saw a man resembling the photofit released by the police at Taman Medan on Wednesday, the day Sharlinie Mohd Nashar went missing.
Both Siti Hawa Awang, 56, and Yuslan Yusof, 46, said the man rode into the residential area on a motorcycle with another man and they saw him at the park from where Sharlinie went missing in the morning.
Drink stall owner Siti Hawa said she saw the men in the afternoon.
“One of the men got off the motorcycle as if to look for someone. Later, the men rode off. I thought nothing of it until I saw the photofit in the papers the next day, which resembled the motorcyclist,” said Siti Hawa.
The incident occurred about 11am on Wednesday, Sharlinie and her sister Sharliena had gone to a playground about 200m from their double-storey link house in Taman Medan to play before she went missing. There was a possibility that the suspect was linked to the abduction of Sharlinie and the previous cases in Kampung Baru.