ALOR STAR, MALAYSIA: The mutilated body of a 10-year-old boy was found in a padi field in Kampung Pida 11 in Sanglang.

Mohd Shafiq Mohd Salleh is believed to have been sucked into the rotating blades of a tractor used to till soil.

The body of the SK Kampung Serdang pupil was discovered about 500m from his house at the Kedah-Perlis border at 4.55pm yesterday.

Tractor owner Mat Shukri Saidin said the boy had insisted on taking a ride on the tractor.

"The driver Razali Mahat told me the boy asked incessantly to hop on the tractor. After much persuasion, the driver gave in to the boy's request. The boy's friend hopped onto another tractor.

"Apparently they were using the tractor to catch fish. They would jump off the tractor when they see fish," he said.

A police spokesman said the victim is believed to have been trapped between the tyre and the blades.

The victim's mother Salwanah Mahat said her son had never played on tractors before.

"He insisted on wearing the new clothes that I bought for him for Hari Raya," said the mother of three.

"It never crossed my mind he would be playing in the padi field wearing new clothes."

The victim's father, Sallaeh Rahim, was inconsolable.