Man thought he was under a spell


Drama is over: Police officers taking away the man who held his family hostage at Taman Duyong Indah in Malacca.

MALACCA: The man who held his family hostage in a seven-hour ordeal that shattered a peaceful weekend in Taman Duyong Indah here believes he was under a spell. And, he considers his seven-year-old daughter a “jinx”.

His eldest daughter Rabiatul Akmah, nine, said her father had been hitting out at her younger sister Norsyakilah Natashah and beating her stepmother and grandmother often.

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