YAN: It is every mother’s living nightmare to find their children murdered in their own bedroom.
A grief-stricken Noorhasyelawati Yusoff, 37, endured a night of terror when she and her family were attacked by a friend of her husband, which ended with the tragic death of her two children, last night.
Noorhasyelawati was sleeping with her four-year-old-daughter, Nurul Hanim Idris, and youngest child, Mohammad Hafiz Idris, one, in one of the rooms at her double story house in Kampung Tengah, here, when she heard a man shouting her husband's name.
She went out of the room and was shocked to find that a parang wielding man had attacked her brother-in-law, Soberi Saad, 52.
Soberi sustained a deep gash on his left ear and received 10 stitches for his injuries.
“The man trained his parang towards me. I managed to avoid his attacks. I panicked and did not know what to do.
“All I could think about at that time was to seek help for the sake of my two children,” she said.
Noorhasyelawati said she left the house to seek help from her neighbours, only to return home devastated.
“I walked into the room. I saw my two children lying in a pool of blood on the bed,” she said.
Nurul Hanim was discovered with multiple slash wounds on the back of her body.
Her younger brother was found dead with his throat slit.
Noorhasyelawati’s eldest child, Mohammad Hakim, seven, was spared from the attack as he was sleeping in another room accompanied by his grandmother, Jamilah Ismail, 60.
The victims' father, Idris Saad, 47, who is a fisherman, was away at sea.
Meanwhile, Soberi said he was sleeping in one of the rooms located on the top floor of the house when he heard loud noises coming from the kitchen.
“I went down to check the kitchen, which was dark. Suddenly, the suspect appeared and swung his parang at my face.
“I went out to get help. I never thought the suspect would be so cruel and murder my nephew and niece,” he said.
The suspect in his 40s, with previous criminal records for drug-related offences was arrested by the police shortly after the incident.
Kedah Criminal Investigation Department chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Mior Faridalthrash Wahid said the suspect has been remanded for a week beginning today to facilitate investigation into the case.
The police, he said, have also recovered the parang used by the suspect.