5 Myanmar nationals held over man’s murder
BUKIT MERTAJAM: Police have arrested five Myammar nationals, one of them a woman, to assist investigations into the murder of a man at a flat unit in Taman Pulasan here on Saturday.
Seberang Prai Tengah district police chief Assistant Commissioner Nik Ros Azhan Nik Ab Hamid said the suspects, aged between 27 and 40, were staying in the same house with the victim.
“They have been remanded for two weeks to assist investigations into the case.
“We are checking their passports,” he said yesterday.
R. Manogaran, 55, was found dead with a knife jutting from his stomach.
There were 13 stab wounds on the front part of the victim’s body and rib, and one stab wound on the back.
Police found the victim sprawled in the living room.
A van driver at the scene revealed that the victim supplied Myanmar workers to factories in Bukit Tengah.
The victim, who was single, was staying in the three-room unit with 10 Myanmar nationals.
According to the van driver, the victim told him that he was heading home after sending the foreigners to work at 10am yesterday.
Four hours later, he received a call from the factories, informing him that the victim had failed to send food to the workers, resulting in them refusing to work.
The van driver then went to the victim’s house, only to find him dead.
Police have since seized a 33cm vegetable knife, a chisel, the victim’s blood-stained pants, a hat, a blood-stained bath towel. Police took seven swabs of blood and lifted two sets of fingerprints on the bathroom door.