College student recalls terrifying moments during robbery
Posted on February 8, 2012, Wednesday
KUALA SELANGOR: A college student recalled the terrifying moments he and his family went through while at the mercy of four armed robbers at their home in Kampung Parit Mahang early yesterday morning.
Incidentally, three of the men were shot dead by police about five kilometers from the victims’ house.
Mohd Aminudin Abdul Rahim, 20, a civil engineering diploma student at the Mara college in Sri Gading, Johor, when met by reporters at his house said he was sleeping on the upper floor of the house with his younger brother when they were awoken around 3am by one of four men who demanded that he followed orders.
He said the man and his three accomplices who were armed with parang, sickle and crowbar then woke up five other family members including his father Abdul Rahim Din, 46, and mother Noryatimah Jamal, 42.
“The four men, one wearinga mask then forced us into the living room and tied up my hands with the laptop cable and that of my family members with a sarong.
“However my mother and my three siblings aged 10, three, and one year and five months were not tied up after one of the men said ‘no need to tie her up as she has small children’.
“They then asked us to surrender our gold but we said we did not have any. They then ransacked the house for about half an hour and then took my laptop, six mobile phones and cash of about RM1,000.”
According to him, the men after getting the car keys ransacked the interior of the family’s Toyota Hilux and took another mobile phone from the vehicle.
Mohd Aminudin said the men then left the house in a car with their loot of about RM10,000 without further harming him or his family members.
“After freeing myself I got on a motorcycle and chased after them as the laptop contained my college assignments. But after about two kilometres I saw a police car and they advised me to leave the area.
“On the way back to my house I heard about four shots being fired,” he said, adding he was thankful and relieved that his family was unhurt and that police got the culprits except for one who had fled towards a nearby palm oil plantation but was being hunted down.
— Bernama
