KUCHING: A man was hurt and robbed of about RM1,000 in his house at Jalan Setia Raja here yesterday.
The 44-year-old businessman claimed that he encountered a robber in his house at Taman Casa Marbella at about 5am yesterday.
They fought and the robber cut his right arm with a knife.
He sustained minor injury.
Before fleeing, the robber grabbed some stuff from the house including a handphone, cash of about RM1,000, ATM cards and personal documents.
In an unrelated matter, a foreign woman from Hong Kong had her handbag snatched by a thief on a motorcycle at Jalan Song Thian Cheok at about 10am last Sunday.
She was walking on the road when the snatcher came from behind.
The 56-year-old lost a few hundred ringgit cash, handphone, camera, credit card and personal documents.
Meanwhile, a coffee shop worker lost a few hundred ringgit cash and a digital camera to a snatch thief at the Third Mile.
At about 10am yesterday she was waiting for someone at a bus station at Third Mile when a thief riding a motorcycle grabbed her handbag and fled.
Police reports had been made for all the cases.
Police are investigating.