KUCHING: A temple security guard was assaulted and robbed by two men after he initially tried to stop them from stealing batteries from a lorry along Jalan Tabuan early yesterday.
The 46-year-old victim was patrolling the temple premises around 4am when he saw two men trying to dismantle the batteries of a lorry parked across the road at Chonglin Park commercial centre.
He immediately dashed towards the pair and shouted at them to stop, but ended up being knocked out cold after one of the men struck his head with a metal pipe.
When he came to several minutes later, he found a nasty gash on his head and was relieved of his wallet and mobile phone by the robbers who were long gone.
Meanwhile, a housewife from Indonesia lodged a police report after she was robbed of her handbag at the same commercial centre at about the same time yesterday morning.
The 33-year-old woman said she was walking back home around 4.15am when a man suddenly appeared and pointed a sharp object at her. He then grabbed her handbag, which contained about RM800 and her passport, before escaping in a Proton Saga car.
The victim, who was unsure if there was anyone else inside the car, managed to record the vehicle’s plate number and forwarded the information to police for investigation.