PORT KLANG: A security guard had his face slashed, throat slit and stomach stabbed as he struggled with robbers during a break-in at a clothes factory in Telok Gong.
Suresh Ramachandran, a father of four, had taken up the job two months ago as a guard there after he was retrenched as operations manager at an electronics firm in Shah Alam.
Klang OCPD assistant commissioner Mohamad Mat Yusop saidSuresh, 36, who was killed in the 1.30am incident, was found in a pool of blood inside the guardhouse with a wire around his neck.
“Initial investigations revealed that three men, believed to be foreigners, had entered a warehouse opposite and tied up another guard G. Gunaseelan, 46.
“One of the men watched over Gunaseelan who was forced to squat under the table while the robber posed as a guard wearing Gunaseelan’s uniform.”
Two other men then crossed over to the factory lot opposite the warehouse.
ACP Mohamad said the incident, which included the two men trying to force open a safe, took about three hours.
“Police found the blades of a grinding machine that was used in a failed attempt to cut open the safe. They carted off two personal computers instead,” he said.
The safe contained 53 foreign passports belonging to Vietnamese and Filipino workers as well as about RM50,000 from Thursday to Saturday’s sales.
According to a source, the three men are believed to be Vietnamese and a police forensic team lifted several fingerprints inside the guardhouse.
Suresh’s brother, Yajesh, 34, who was distraught, stood outside the factory and cried.
“On being retrenched, my brother had to make ends meet and he took up the job until he could land a better one,” he said.
According to a worker, this is the second time the factory had been robbed.
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