KUANTAN – An elderly couple are believed to have been hacked to death with a parang by their son at their Kg Kemahang Hulu home in Benta, near here, yesterday.
Deputy Pahang police chief Datuk Mohd Yusri Hassan Basri said it is believed the suspect, 31, was having a conversation with his parents, aged 68 and 64, when the incident took place at 10.30pm.
Before the incident, he said the suspect’s mother, a pensioner, went into a room, leaving the suspect with his father, a security guard.
He said the suspect then went into a room and reappeared with a parang, and started hacking and stabbing his father on the head and shoulder.
“Hearing noises, the suspect’s mother rushed out to her husband’s aid, but the suspect attacked her on the neck and head,” he said in a statement today.
The woman then ran out of the house but collapsed near the house’s fence, he added.
Yusri said the suspect, who is unemployed, left the house in a bloodied state but was detained by villagers and handed over to police.
He said the couple’s remains were taken to Kuala Lipis Hospital for post-mortem examinations.
The suspect, who tested positive for drugs, is being remanded seven days from today.
Police are still investigating the motive behind the incident. – Bernama, October 5, 2021
