Nurse whose parents, brother were murdered was preparing to work in Saudi hospital

MELAKA: A staff nurse who was attacked by a relative who hacked her mother, father and brother to death at their Kampung Bertam Malim home yesterday, was preparing to work at a hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Noorhaslinda Diyana Hassan, 26, who works at an operation theatre at a private hospital in Bandar Hilir here, was planning to work in Saudi Arabia to help her family financially and gain working experience.

“Linda ( Noorhaslinda Diyana) was making preparations to go to Saudi Arabia. Her vias is currently being processed and she is due to leave in October,” the victim’s aunt, Mariani Baharin, 53, told Bernama at the Melaka Hospital’s emergency and trauma department.

The nurse has been warded at the department with severe head injuries.

Mariani said she did not foresee the attack which befell Noorhaslinda Diyana’s family, resulting in the deaths of mother, Maria Baharin, 62; father Hassan Wahab, 70, and younger brother, Mohammad Taufeq, 22.

In the incident about 6.30am, the 26-year- old alleged assailant had also attacked and injured his sister, Nur Aqiedah Aeina, 24, and grandmother Siti Khatijah Mohamed, 79.

Nur Aqiedah Aeina underwent surgery at the Melaka Hospital.

More than four hours later, a police team detained the suspect at the Bukit Rambai Mosque to facilitate investigations into the three murders and attacks on the nurse and other close relatives.

Mariani, a housewife, said she and her family who lived in Keramat, Kuala Lumpur, received a telephone call from her brother in Sabah on the incident about 7.30am before rushing to go the hospital.

“We were told that some family members were slashed ( by the man), but did not know their actual condition. We prayed nothing serious had happened,” she said.

Meanwhile, Noorhaslinda Diyana’s cousin, Lina Arina Mohamad A’fifi, 26, said the suspect who lived in the nurse’s house was described as “depressed and a loner”.

It is believed the man had been taking drugs, in particular, ganja and was sent to the Henry Gurney School here previously. He had no permanent job. He was known to constantly change jobs.

Another cousin, Lina Ainaa Mohamad A’fifi, 21, said the victim’s brother, Mohammad Taufeq who died in the incident was a business studies undergraduate at Universiti Utara Malaysia in Sintok, Kedah.

He was on his semester holiday. — Bernama