Man armed with hammer assaults pre-school children in class
By HAMDAN RAJA ABDULLAH
newsdesk@thestar.com.my
MUAR: The happy chatter of children turned into screams of horror when an unidentified man armed with a hammer barged into a kindergarten here and bludgeoned three six-year-olds.
In the morning incident which shocked the residents of the usually peaceful Lorong Haji Ali, the man rode up to the kindergarten and parked his motorcycle outside.
Holding a hammer in one hand, he climbed over the fence and kicked open the locked grill that led to the main hall of Tadika Sinario.
Some 20 children were having breakfast at the time, under the watchful eyes of kindergarten operator Voon Siew Kuin, 45.
The children were at first shocked to see a stranger charging into their kindergarten, but became horrified when violence unfolded in the next few minutes.
Voon tried to attract the attention of the man by repeatedly asking him: “You cari siapa? (Who are you looking for?)”.
Agitated, the small-built man threw pepper powder at her and hit her with the hammer.
As she groaned in pain, the man began to wildly swing the hammer at the children.
Three of them, including a girl, were hit on the head. The other children screamed as they tried to flee.
The man then ran away when Voon recovered and chased after him with a broom.
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