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Tuesday 3 August 2010

Ex-state rep, aide dead: Cops probe 'murder-cum-suicide'

By Fazy Sahir - Free Malaysia Today

UPDATED SUNGAI BULOH: Did former Permatang state assemblyman Abdul Aziz Mohd Noh shoot his female aide before turning the gun on himself? Or was it the other way around?

The police are not discounting any possibilities.

When contacted, Selangor police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told FMT that the police are looking into all angles, including murder-cum-suicide.

However, he declined to elaborate, saying, “Let us investigate first.”

Presently, the police's forensics department is checking the Toyota Caldina for leads. Abdul Aziz, 64, and his aide, Siti Rohana Ismat, 43, were found dead in the vehicle.

The bodies are believed to have been taken to the Sungai Buloh hospital.

Meanwhile, Khalid also told reporters that there was no third person in the car when the incident happened.

He also confirmed that a pistol was seized from the vehicle.

According to the police, the car crashed by the roadside here at about 10 am.

The police personnel tasked to investigate the incident initially thought it was a usual road accident. But the pathologist, who arrived later, found gunshot wounds to the victims' heads.

Aziz, from Umno, served as a one-term assemblyman until 2008. He, however, did not contest in the last general election.

He also served as the former political secretary to Selangor menteri besar Abu Hassan Omar from 2004 to 2008. Siti Rohana, meanwhile, was the deputy Wanita chief of Tanjung Karang Umno division.

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