Businessman survives after being shot

Crime scene investigation: Policemen at the scene where the businessman was shot in Jalan Air Putih.

KUANTAN: A businessman survived being shot twice and slashed by four assailants who then fled in his car in an early morning robbery.

Pahang deputy police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Jamaluddin Abd Majid said Lee Siew Meng, 42, was checking into a hotel in Jalan Air Putih here when he was approached by two of the suspects in the 4.20am incident.