Man slashed and robbed by two men

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SAMARAHAN: A man was slashed on the face by two armed motorcyclists who left him lying on the road after his car broke down along Jalan Muara Tuang yesterday morning.

The ambulance carrying Chua arrives at Sarawak General Hospital.

The 23-year-old victim surnamed Chua was heading back to his office around 11am after paying his employer’s land title premium at the District Office here when his company car broke down.

Chua said when he got out to check the vehicle, two men arrived on a motorcycle and approached him.

One of the motorcyclists whipped out a boxcutter knife and slashed his right cheek while the pillion rider, armed with a meat cleaver, grabbed his wallet which held RM20.

Both men ran to their motorcycle and sped off, leaving the Chua lying on the road, bleeding.

A passing motorist came to his aid and sent him to a nearby clinic where an ambulance was summoned to transport him to Sarawak General Hospital in Kuching.

In an unrelated incident in Kuching, a lone man held up a 7-Eleven outlet in Stutong early yesterday, using a knife to threaten an employee into surrendering cash and cigarettes.

The incident occurred around 3.45am when the man, wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet, entered the outlet and pointed a ‘spring knife’ at the male employee manning the counter.

He forced the sole worker to empty the cash register which contained RM79 as well as four packs of cigarettes before fleeing on a motorcycle.

Kuching district police chief ACP Roslan Bek Ahmad, who confirmed receiving a report of the incident, said the employee was not hurt during the robbery and that police were investigating.