Selayang Fight Leaves Restaurant Worker Dead

KUALA LUMPUR, 27 JANUARY, 2012: A restaurant worker was slashed to death while his employer was seriously injured following a fight early this morning with a group of men believed to be drunk, who refused to settle the food bill.

Gombak police chief, ACP Abdul Rahim Abdullah said Tan Ching Choon, 46, and his employer Lim Kok Keng, 41, were slashed several times with cleavers by nine men at the restaurant in Desa Jaya, Selayang around 12.45am.
    
"Tan and his employer had requested the men to pay for the food and drinks as they were going to close the restaurant.
    
"A quarrel ensued and then the group attacked the victims with cleavers, chairs and bottles," he said when contacted by Bernama here today.
    
The group fled in a proton saga car and a motorcycle when police patrolling the area in an MPV arrived, he said.
    
He said police subsequently managed to nab one of the men, aged 32, who was in a drunken state and rounded up in six other suspects by 2.25am.
    
"Police also seized two cleavers, a motorcycle and a car and are hunting down the two remaining suspects, he added.
    
He said Tan's remains were sent to the Selayang Hospital for post-mortem while the condition of the other victim, who is being warded at the same hospital, was reported to be stable.
    

- Bernama