Senior investigating officer ASP Yeoh Chun Shyan taking a blood sample of the suspect from the ground.
SIBU: A foreigner was critically injured in a fall from the third floor of his rented shophouse in an attempt to escape after allegedly killing two housemates, who were also foreigners.
Sibu deputy police chief Supt Martin Koo confirmed the case when contacted yesterday, saying police were expected to remand the suspect.
The suspect was unconscious but his condition is reported to be stable.
Before the incident on Saturday night, the suspect, the two slain foreigners and another housemate were having a drinking session in their rented shophouse at Upper Lanang Road.
The session ended at 10pm when the suspect, 32, from Myanmar had a heated argument with a countryman, 34.
The latter, Kyaw Aye Tun, was stabbed with a knife and died in the living room believed due to deep cuts on the left side of his head. His skull was also broken.
A third housemate, Ponnana Ganesh, 25, from India who tried to stop the quarrel was also stabbed.
Ponnana tried to run to safety but collapsed at the staircase on the second floor in a pool of blood and died.
He suffered a stab in his chest and critical injury to the back of his head.
The suspect then climbed out from a window on the third floor in an attempt to escape.
As he was making his way down, the water pipe he was holding onto broke, causing him to fall down.
He hit a roof on the ground floor before landing on the ground at the back lane, critically injured.
The fourth housemate, 20, managed to escape when he saw the suspect holding a knife during the quarrel.
He ran downstairs to make a phone call to his agent for help.
The Indian national, who was unhurt, told police he did not know what the quarrel between the two Myanmar nationals was about as he could not understand their language.
Police and the K9 Unit were summoned to the scene. After combing the vicinity of the building, they found the severely injured suspect lying on the ground at the back lane.
An ambulance rushed the injured man to hospital.
Police also found a knife in the toilet bowl, which they believe was used in the attack.
A friend of the 20-year-old Indian national said the four foreigners worked for a shipping company.
In another case, Koo said police arrested the fourth suspect related to the murder of a man at Brooke Drive on Thursday.
He confirmed the arrest of the man who was placed under seven-day remand beginning yesterday.
He said the suspect was picked up on Saturday, two days after police had detained three other suspects including a couple.
The victim, identified as Ah Nong, the four suspects and another man were having a drinking session at an abandoned detached house at Lane 16, Brooke Drive from Wednesday afternoon until 1am the following day.
Still not satisfied, the three suspects went out to buy some more beer.
Ah Nong, the woman suspect and another man who was already drunk stayed back in the house.
Ah Nong invited the woman to have sex, to which she agreed.
When the three men returned, the woman had dressed up but Ah Nong was still undressed.
The woman’s husband demanded RM10 from Ah Nong to pay for the beer but he refused, causing him and the other two men to bash him up.
Policemen combing for weapons near the drain. The suspect had climbed out from a window on the third floor of the shophouse in an attempt to escape. He was holding onto a water pipe but it broke and he fell, hitting the roof before landing on the ground. The broken waterpipe can be seen on the ground.