Kathmandu, February 19:

Forensic doctors are near to the identification of a body of a foreign lady recovered from the Nagarjun forest on February 11.

The decomposing body was handed over to the forensic section of the TU Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, after the police found it inside the Nagarjun forest. The police are certain the body belongs to one of two foreign ladies who went missing in the forest area in October. Police have also recovered three rings, one sock, a pair of women’s undergarments and a T-shirt that were reportedly strewn around the body.

French national Celine Henry and another German woman Sabine Grunklee have been missing September 3 and October 15, 2005, respectively. Police investigations had revealed that both women had registered their names at the entry point of the forest, but there was no evidence of their emerging out of the jungle.

Dr Harihar Wosti of the Forensic section of the hospital said: “We are near to the identification of the body.” He said forensic team was quite certain the body belonged to Sabine Grunklee.