Sabah tycoon and wife murdered

KOTA KINABALU: Prominent Sabah tycoon Datuk Wong Tze Fatt, 82, and his wife Datin Lee Bee Hee, 81, were murdered in their hilltop house shortly before their assailant set fire to the residence. 

In the attack, which has shaken the local community, the elderly couple were confronted by an intruder at their bungalow atop Signal Hill at 8am yesterday. The intruder was believed to have hit Wong in the head with a blunt object and strangled his wife.