KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4- One of four men fired two shots and badly injured the owner of Abdul Razak Jewellers in Lebuh Ampang here during a vain robbery attempt Tuesday, police said.
The shots hit Abdul Rasul Abd Razak (photo), 58, in the abdomen and right shoulder in the incident at about 9.30 am, said Kuala Lumpur CID deputy chief ACP Khairi Ahrasa.
Abdul Rasul was rushed to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital, he added.
Khairi said two men wearing full-face helmets and black jackets rushed into the jewellery shop as four employees were getting ready to start work.
One of them leapt over the showcase onto the employees’ side while another waited on the customers’ side, he told reporters at the scene.
Abdul Rasul came out of his office then and grappled with the two men, he said.
Seeing this, two more men who had been waiting on a motorcycle outside the shop rushed in and one of them fired several shots, hitting Abdul Rasul in the abdomen and right shoulder, he added.
“The men panicked and fled on two motorcycles without taking anything from the shop,” he said, adding that police found three bullet casings and fragments of a slug at the scene.
He said police suspected that the would-be robbers had two pistols.
Police were recording statements from several witnesses and watching the recording of the closed circuit television camera installed outside the shop, he added.
– BERNAMA
