KAJANG (SELANGOR) - POLICE are looking for six suspects to help
their investigation into the murder of a university student whose
half-nude body was found in a house on the outskirts of Kuala
Lumpur on Thursday.
Ms Tang Lai Meng, 20, was believed to have been raped and strangled
in a room in her rented double-storey house.
The first-year business administration student at Universiti Tunku
Abdul Rahman, near the Selangor town of Kajang, was found lying on
her bed with her hands tied behind her back.
Police said they believed that the motive for the murder was
robbery and rape, and that the crime was carried out by more than
three people.
One of the suspects is a Pakistani security guard at the Bandar
Mahkota residential area where the victim lived.
Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said the guard had not
turned up for work since the incident.
The other five people whom police want to contact are her former
housemates.
Police took statements from six people yesterday, including her
41-year-old boyfriend and a campus friend, said a police
spokesman.
Ms Tang had rented a room in the house just two months ago and
started her course last month.
Her grieving mother, Madam Kong Su Har, told Guang Ming Daily that
she had advised her daughter to remain in their Ipoh home town to
further her studies, but she was determined to go to the
university, which is near Kuala Lumpur.
A police team rushed to the house at noon after receiving a report
from a neighbour, who said the back door grille was damaged and a
window was opened wide.
Ms Tang was clad only in a T-shirt and a pillowcase was found
wrapped around her neck.
'Autopsy found that the victim died due to suffocation, possibly
because her face was covered with something,' the police spokesman
said.
The police team found the front doors open, which seemed to
indicate that her assailant or assailants could have used keys to
open the doors from the inside to flee.
The victim's Toyota Vios car, laptop, two mobile phones and purse
were missing.
The police chief of the Kajang district, Assistant Commissioner
Rosli Mohd Nizam, said initial investigations showed Ms Tang could
have been attacked seven hours before her body was
discovered.
The neighbour who called the police also said he had noticed a man
in a silver Proton Waja car who was a frequent visitor.
In Ipoh, Ms Tang's family, who operate a restaurant business, at
first refused to believe the news when informed by reporters. They
later confirmed the news by contacting the Kajang police
station.
THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK, BERNAMA
it is always those non-chinese targeting chinese. it is very victim
status.
