Temple Robbed & Its' Caretaker Slashed by 5 Armed Robbers

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Temple caretaker now in coma, hack and slashed by 5 assailants who broke into the temple to Rob and Steal

5個大男人持械對付1個手無縛雞之力的老翁，如此兇徒一天不逮捕，人民生活寢食難安。

在柔佛著名旅遊景點“花果山”廟宇當警衛的74歲華裔老翁吳亞芽（也稱吳正芳），上週曾喝止5名潛入廟宇內企圖偷竊的匪徒，沒想到事隔幾天後，5名手持彎形鐮刀的印尼悍匪闖入廟內，二話不說便朝他狂砍7刀，以致他後腦、臉部、右腳、左手掌、右手臂各中一刀、背部中兩刀，傷勢嚴重。送往醫院搶救後，仍處於半昏迷狀態。

 

Masked robbers break into Tapah house, assault couple and rob temple next door By ELWEEN LOKE

Masked robbers break into Tapah house, assault couple and rob temple next door
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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