Housewife hit with hammer
KUALA LUMPUR: A visit to a temple in Seri Kembangan on Tuesday turned out to be a traumatic one for Kuan Choy Peng, a 52-year-old housewife from Kepong.
She was walking along the busy Sungai Besi Expressway towards the temple located at the Mines Waterfront Business Park at about 11.30am when she was hit on the head from the back. She turned around and was shocked to find a middle-aged man stretching out his arm to snatch her handbag.
“He swung the hammer at me again but missed. I then let go of my handbag and fell to the ground.
“When I chased after him, I saw another man waiting for him on a motorcycle. The motorcyclist gave me a stare and I decided to give up,” Choy Peng said.
Blood was oozing from the wound and she later received two stitches at the Sime Darby Medical Centre in Subang Jaya.
The CT scan and X-ray examination showed that she did not suffer any blood clot, and her skull was not fractured.
“I am fortunate to be alive but the culprits must be nabbed and punished so that no one else would get hurt,” Choy Peng said.
The hammer used by the robber was retrieved from the drain at the scene and handed over to the police.
The handbag was found in a residential area in Section 8, Seri Kembangan and delivered to the Serdang DAP service centre by a good Samaritan.
Cash amounting to about RM500 was missing while other items such as credit cards and car keys were still in the bag.
Choy Peng’s brother, Kuan Chee Heng, who is the founder of a community policing website (http://cops.org.my/), urged the public to cooperate with the police by feeding them with information on any suspicious characters in their neighbourhood.
“These people might be crooks, offenders on the loose. Preventive measures should be taken before any untoward incident happens,” he said.