By ELWEEN LOKE
IPOH: In just two hours, a group of five robbers broke into a house in Tapah and robbed it, attacked a couple before moving on to rob a Hindu temple next to it.
At about 3am Monday, the masked robbers in black, armed with parangs, broke into a house in Kampung Pahang and slashed A. Murthy, 55, and his wife M. Danaletchumi, 50.
Their daughter M. Prema, 25, said the group first barged into the room where her mother and brother M. Napakumar, 15, were sleeping and tied them up.
“One of them asked: where are the priests? Any valuable items in the house?”
“My mother told them that there was no priest in the house and we are just a poor family,” she told reporters at her house on Monday.
Prema said one of them then hit her mother's head with the handle of the parang and cut her thumb.
“My father, who was sleeping alone in another room, was awoken by the commotion and came to have a look.
“They went up to him and slashed his back, arms and legs,” she said.
She said her parents were sent to the Teluk Intan hospital for treatment.
Tapah OCPD Supt Somsak Din Keliau said the family had lodged a police report.
He said the suspects stole about RM600 cash money and two mobile phones from the house.
“It is believed that the same suspects broke into the temple next to the house.”
Supt Somsak said the group gathered three Hindu priests in a room and tied them up.
“They took away two gold rings, a locket, seven mobile phones and RM2,000 cash money,” he said, adding that the estimated loss was about RM12,000.
Chenderiang assemblyman Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon, who visited the family and the temple, said he was shocked by the robbers' cruelty.
“The police are investigating,” he said, adding that he would visit the injured couple in the hospital.
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