MIRI: A timber company contractor has been found dead three days after he went missing while leading a team of logging workers into the deep jungle of Kapit district in central Sarawak.

The Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department confirmed that it was the contractor's remains.

The body was brought to Kapit town around 8am on Friday (May 3) morning and handed over to the police, Sarawak Bomba said in its latest updates.

"The man was found dead inside the jungle, with his neck caught up in some tree roots," said Sarawak Bomba.

How he ended up in that situation was not explained, but the case is now being handled by the police.

On May 2, Bomba Kapit teams started a search-and-rescue mission to locate the missing man, identified as Kanek Antok.

The contractor was reported missing in the jungles of Ulu Sungai Melatai at about 7pm on Wednesday (May 1).

The Bomba station from the nearest town of Kapit deployed search teams to the site.

It took them six hours by boat and foot to reach the site where the contractor was last seen, after receiving the emergency alert on May 1 at about 7pm.

"The contractor was with a team of 10 workers who went into the Ulu Sg Melatai forests on April 30 to mark timber logs.

The workers said they found blood trails at the site, where he went missing.

A police report was lodged, while the Bomba search and rescue operation started.

Kapit district is located right in the heart of Sarawak. Kapit town has no proper road-links yet with the outside world, only rugged gravel and earth roads via the timber and plantation areas.