BULLET MARK: Esah pointing to the shot mark (circled).
MIRI: The mystery of ‘shotgun’ shootings, albeit with less menacing pellets, which are getting rampant around shop premises in the Taman Tunku housing estate of late, is putting residents in fear.
Many cases were reported recently, occurring in the day time at different locations.
One resident Juliana Esah Kakok, who operates a sundry shop, encountered a scary experience when a single shot (or pellet) penetrated the glass wall of the back of her shop.
“Fortunately, at that material time at about 10am, no one was nearby,” she recalled when relating the bizarre incident to thesundaypost yesterday.
When queried, Esah believed the culprits could have used marbles for bullets as she found a few pieces of marbles at the scene when they went outside to investigate.
“Although the marbles are not explosives, they could cause damage and injury to anybody who get shot.
“This is very dangerous and could cause fatality if the bullets hit the sensitive parts of our body,” she voiced out with grave concern.
According to Esah, a few days before the mysterious incident, a similar one occurred at a ‘tamu’ (a market selling jungle produce) nearby her shop.
The bullets hit a female trader who screamed in excruciating pain, creating a scene and panic among other traders as well as customers who scurried away.
Esah’s husband, Geoffery Laiman Ingan, also recalled two similar incidents in the area.
“A customer was having his breakfast early at a coffee-shop when a bullet hit him from nowhere.
“He almost fell off his chair and of course suffered pains too,” Geoffery said.
Another happened to a customer who was engrossed in buying pork and this also created a scene.
To a question, Geoffery who is a businessman said the culprits behind all these dangerous acts could be foreigners using home-made guns and marbles or pellets as bullets.
He hoped the relevant authorities could look into the matter fast and investigate before these cases get out of hand.