Housewife stabbed to death in likely robbery-gone-wrong

KUANTAN: Mohd Abid Nasrul was puzzled when he saw his younger sibling shouting for help from their bedroom window yesterday.

Abid, 8, the second of three siblings, had just returned from school to his house in Kampung Hijrah, near Penor, with his father, Nasrul Mansor, 32, and spotted his brother, Mohd Aqil, near the room window.

“I opened the house door and unlocked the room door... my brother ran out shouting ‘emak kena tikam’ (mother has been stabbed).

“I rushed to inform my father who was still seated outside the house... he then dashed into the house and found my mother lying in the living room,” he said when met at the house yesterday.

Housewife Norhasilah Ismail, 34, was found dead with two stab wounds to her stomach and chest.

“Checks revealed her attacker had broken into the house and held her hands as she struggled to free herself. The suspect had stabbed her twice, and locked Aqil before leaving, leaving him unharmed in the bedroom.

“Police are not ruling out the possibility the break-in could have been a robbery gone wrong, but we are waiting for the husband to check if any of their valuables are missing. Since the house is equipped with closedcircuit television cameras, we will obtain the footage to assist investigations,” he said, adding that the victim’s husbandwas away at work at the time of the incident.