Amok who attacked daughters is in hospital with head injuries

BANGI: The jobless man who attacked three of his daughters with a machete, killing his youngest, is in police custody at the Kajang Hospital.

Selangor deputy police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Abdul Rahim Jaafar said Friday the man is receiving treatment for injuries to his head.

"We believe he injured his head badly when he fell into the river while running away.

"He will remain under police custody while he receives treatment for his injuries before we remand him," he said adding that the case was being investigated as murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code.

On the mental state of the suspect, DCP Abdul Rahim said he would leave that to the Public Prosecutors Office to decide.

"If they decide after our investigations are concluded that a psychological evaluation is necessary then it will be done so," he said when contacted Friday.

It was reported Thursday that the seven-year-old girl was allegedly murdered by her father while two of her sisters were severely injured at their house in Bandar Baru Bangi.

The man’s 15-year-old daughter came home at about 4.15pm Thursday to find two of her siblings injured in the living room and her father holding a blood-stained parang.

She quickly ran upstairs and locked herself with her elder brother in a room. The father fled.

One of the injured girls then ran out of the house and sought help from a neighbour.

Police arrived to discover the little girl dead in a back room on the ground floor of the house.

They tracked down the 44-year-old father to a river some 300m away at about 6.30pm.