KOTA KINABALU: Workers at a workshop near the Sepanggar Port saw several dogs playing with some weird looking things and decided to have a closer look.

As they neared the dogs, they saw that the "toys" were actually three feet.

They immediately alerted the authorities and chased the dogs away, while making sure that the feet were left behind.

Kota Kinabalu OCPD Asst Comm Habibi Majinji said in the 6pm incident on Friday (Feb 21), the workers had seen the dogs playing with something and saw that they resembled feet.

“When our men were alerted and went to check, they found that they were children’s feet, ” he said.

He said there were only bite marks on the feet, and nothing that resembled cuts.

“We are not sure whether the dogs had dug up graves and bit off the legs of buried children, ” ACP Habibi said.

He urged folks living nearby to inform police if they have or know of any children missing, or if they had recently buried deceased children.

“Forensic tests will be conducted to try and identify whose feet were those, ” he added.

The case is currently being investigated under the Sudden Death Report.