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Monday August 16, 2010

Man injures wife and daughter with acid over RM30

By R.S.N. MURALI
newsdesk@thestar.com.my

HULU TERENGGANU: A jobless man who failed to secure a RM30 loan from his ex-wife struck back in cruel fashion – by splashing acid on her, his eight-year-old daughter and two others. In the 2am attack at Kampung Sekayu here, Cek Ku Zaimah Che Ku Awang, 28, and Nurul Dahyatul Fazlinda Khalib suffered serious facial and body injuries.

The others injured were Cek Ku Zaimah’s mother Minah Omar, 56, and brother Mohd Irfan Firdaus, 28. Met at the Sultanah Nur Zahirah hospital in Kuala Terengganu, Cek Ku Zaimah said her 32-year-old ex-husband had wanted to borrow RM30 from her but she refused. “He insisted that I give him the money as he wanted to find a job in Kuala Lumpur but I ignored him,” she said from her hospital bed.

Che Ku Zaimah said she had divorced her husband after finding out that he was a drug addict. They got married 12 years ago. Recalling the incident, Che Ku Zaimah said her ex-husband stormed into her home at midnight and demanded cash. “All of a sudden he started manhandling me but I managed to ward him off.

He then rushed out from the house and returned a few minutes later with a bottle of acid before splashing it on me”, she said. Che Ku Zaimah said the family members who came to her aid were also attacked. State Acting CID chief Supt K. Manoharan said police are looking for the man who fled after the attack.

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Tuesday August 17, 2010

I will never forgive him, says acid attack victim

KUALA TERENGGANU: The woman who was attacked with acid is staying strong – but she will never forgive her husband for scarring their daughter for life.

“I will never forgive the man who harmed my kids. he is not my husband. He is a syaitan (satan). Because of him we are going to have a bleak Hari Raya,” said Che Ku Zaimah Ku Awang when Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Said visited her yesterday. Eight-year-old Nurul Dahyatul Fazlina Khalib was so badly disfigured in the acid attack that Ahmad sobbed openly when he saw her.

medical officers and members of the media who accompanied him could not hold back their tears. But Ku Zaimah was strong. “This is takdir (fate),” she was heard murmuring. Speaking to reporters outside the ward, Ahmad said he was saddened by the attack and would render help to the family.



In trauma: Che Ku Zaimah, carrying her two-year-old son Md Irfan Firdaus Mohd, and Nurul Dahyatul Fazlina were seriously injured in the acid attack.

“Even animals have instincts to not harm their offspring. I am baffled how a father could be so heartless,” he said. In the incident, a jobless man splashed acid on his family members after he failed to get a RM30 loan from his ex-wife. Apart from Nurul Dahyatul Fazlina and Che Ku Zaimah, two others, Che Ku Zaimah’s mother Minah Omar and her brother Mohd Irfan Firdaus, 28, were injured in the 2am attack at their home in Kampung Sekayu in Hulu Terengganu.

The 32-year-old assailant fled shortly after the attack but was detained by police at 12.55pm yesterday at Kampung Kuala Poh, Pasir Nering in Hulu Terengganu. The man had in his possession a 6cm-long knife, several morphine ampoules and a syringe when he was arrested. State Acting CID chief Supt K. Manoharan said the man tried to escape upon seeing the police team but was detained after a brief struggle. He tested positive for drugs.

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Wednesday August 18, 2010

Man in acid attack case remanded

KUALA TERENGGANU: A 32-year-old man detained in connection with an acid attack in Kampung Sekayu, Hulu Terengganu, has been remanded for six days to facilitate police investigations.



Scarred for life: Che Ku Zaimah (left) and Nurul Dahyatul Fazlinda, the wife and daughter of the man who allegedly splashed acid on his family, recovering in the hospital in Kuala Terengganu on Monday.

The man, who fled after allegedly splashing acid on his former wife, daughter and two other family members after failing to borrow RM30 from them, was arrested at Kampung Kuala Poh, Pasir Nering in Hulu Terengganu on Monday. An eight-year-old girl was badly scarred as a result of the 2am attack on Sunday.