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Gradates suffer serious slash, cut wounds; cops find cannabis in blood-splattered house

A young couple – both university graduates – was found with serious slash and cut wounds in a house at Desa Senadin near here yesterday.

Policemen who rushed to the scene to investigate also found what is believed to be four cubes of cannabis or ganja in the living room and a bedroom of the blood-splattered house.

It is learnt that a member of the public called the Miri police operations room after he heard a couple quarrelling in the house around noon.

A Mobile Patrol Vehicle (MPV) unit and other police personnel from Lutong Police Station were the first to arrive at the scene.

Policemen, however, were unable to enter the house as it was locked from inside, and thus they have to rope in personnel from the Fire and Rescue Department to cut the locked side door house grille before policemen forced open the door and rushed in to arrest a man who was covered in blood.

The man was found in the kitchen.

According to sources, the man, who is from Bintulu had just completed his tertiary education while his girlfriend who is from Batu Niah near here graduated about a year ago.

They were said to be staying in a house belonging to a relative of the girl.

A source said the knife-wielding man resisted arrest, and a police officer was slightly injured on his cheek in the scuffle.

He was later subdued and handcuffed.

The man sustained cuts on his neck, chest and arms while the woman suffered a deep cut on her neck and cuts on her hands, believed to have been inflicted with a kitchen knife and a pair of scissors which were found at the scene.

Blood was found in the kitchen and living room.

The man, who could still walk, was handcuffed and brought out of the house while the seriously injured woman was brought on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance before she was rushed to Miri General Hospital for treatment.

The duo was believed to have lost a lot of blood.

Infrastructure Develop-ment and Communication Assistant Minister Lee Kim Shin who was told of the incident later checked with hospital and was told that the injured female patient was in serious, but stable condition.

Miri CID chief DSP Mohd Zaini Che Din and senior investigating officer ASP Zainan Azili were at the scene to investigate.

A police dog unit team and narcotics police personnel were later dispatched to the scene.

The motive of the tragic incident is not immediately known, but the police are not ruling out jealousy or drug-driven frenzy which led to the bloody incident. Miri OCPD ACP Jamaluddin Ibrahim confirmed the case but refused to give details except to say investigations were underway.

Source : Mohd Abdullah and Philip Kiew