KUALA LUMPUR – The burglars who slashed a retired researcher to death in a robbery at Bukit Bandaraya, Bangsar, here early this morning were believed to have broken into the house via the back lane.
A representative for a security company in the area, Ranveer Singh, 32, said the guard on duty at Jalan Mambu last night did not suspect anything untoward.
“The security guards here are on duty 24 hours a day and they would have detected the criminals if they had used the front lane,” he told Bernama at the scene today.
Ranveer, who called the incident regrettable, said residents have proposed increasing the number of security guards in the housing area.
Meanwhile, Brickfields district police chief Anuar Omar said it was believed that the two suspects escaped through a big drain at the back of the two-storey bungalow.
He said police dogs managed to track the suspects up to 50 metres from the drain before they lost the criminals’ scent in the water near the main road.
“Police are intensifying efforts to hunt for the suspects,” he said.
In the 3.30am incident, the 71-year-old victim Dr Wan Hassan Wan Embong, a former researcher of the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute, was slashed to death by two burglars who broke into his house.
His wife, 70-year-old Sarifah Yusof, also sustained slash wounds on her right hand.
It is believed the burglars, who broke in through the kitchen window of the double-storey bungalow, used a machete as their weapon of choice. Despite Wan Hassan putting up a fight, he suffered fatal slash wounds to his face and neck and died on the spot. – Bernama, November 29, 2020
