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    23 April 2012| last updated at 09:22PM

    Restaurant owner fatally stabs herself



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    Sandakan: In a freak twist of fate, a restaurateur fatally stabbed herself when she slipped and fell on a six-inch knife she was holding at her restaurant in Taman Yeng Seng near here today.

     

    Cynthia Tan Kian Hoon, 41, a mother of two, succumbed to a single stab wound, minutes later, at the kitchen of Restoran Hello about 6.20am.
    The police do not suspect foul play.
     
    District acting police chief Supt Fadzil Mohd Ali said Tan was about to begin her usual routine of cutting vegetables and onions at the kitchen of the restaurant when the mishap occurred. He said the knife had pierced the right side of the victim's chest when she slipped on the floor.
     
    "Her younger brother and a male worker who were at the front of the restaurant, heard her screams for help and went to her aid.
     
    "An ambulance from the Duchess of Kent Hospital was despatched to the scene but Tan was already dead," said Fadzil.
     
    He said a post-mortem by the hospital's pathologist revealed a severed artery as the cause of death. -- Bernama

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