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SIBU: A man, his two children, mother bludgeoned to death, another child in critical condition, wife escapes unhurt.
NOT SPARED:The last body believed to be that of the seven-year old girl brought out from the house.
SERIOUSLY INJURED: Hospital attendants carry the injured eight-year-old boy into the ambulance waiting outside the house.
IN UTTER DESPAIR: A neighbour comforts Ling’s wife, Li Xiao Lan (seated).
Four in a family were brutally killed in a double-storey terrace house at RTM Road here around 7.30am yesterday.
Sibu police chief ACP Shafie Ismail identified the victims as timber and shipping businessman Ling Tong Hock, 36, his mother Leong Nyuk Lan, 76, his two children, David Ling Chei Qi,10, and Amy Ling Zi Jiun, seven years old.
The businessman’s eight-year-old son, Kelvin Ling Chei You, who suffered slash wounds on his neck and back was in a critical condition at the Sibu Hospital, he said.
“The only family member who escaped unhurt is Ling’s wife, Li Xiao Lan, who locked herself in her bedroom when she heard a commotion downstairs.
“The 28-year-old woman managed to escape through the bedroom window on the upper floor and sought help from neighbours,” he told a press conference at the police headquarters here yesterday.
According to sources close to the family, the three children were from the businessman’s first marriage.
After he divorced his wife, he married Li, a Chinese national, about two years ago.
Li was said to have been called in by the police around 5.30pm yesterday to assist in their investigation.
Shafie told this morning’s press conference that he believed the victims were attacked by persons using hard and blunt objects.
The bodies, he said, were found in several places in the house.
“No weapon was found when police combed the scene,” he said.
He believed it was not a robbery as there was nothing taken from the house.
He said the case was classified as murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code.
State’s deputy police commissioner Datuk Law Hong Soon told the same press conference that the police would investigate the case from all angles.
He said they would get Bukit Aman police to help in the investigation if need be.
“We are appealing to the public to assist us,” said Law, who flew in from Kuching after he was informed of the case.
Meanwhile, Sibu MP and Bukit Assek assemblyman Wong Ho Leng and Pelawan assemblyman David Wong Kee Woan were among those seen at the house after the incident.