TELUPID: A four-year-old boy died after his neck was slit with a butcher’s cleaver by his uncle at a restaurant in Kampung Gambaron near here on Monday.
Beluran district police chief Supt Sivanathan Velautham said the 23-year-old man believed to be mentally ill took a cleaver from the restaurant and lured the victim, Mohamad Khairul Aize Bin Abdullah, who was playing inside to the back of the eatery before slitting his throat.
The incident took place about 6pm at a restaurant owned by the victim’s mother and the man who committed the act was the brother of the victim’s father who was in the restaurant for the breaking of fast.
The boy who was fatally injured on the neck screamed in pain drawing the attention of his famiy who rushed him to Klinik Kesihatan Telupid but he succumbed to his injury, he told Bernama yesterday..
Sivanathan said the man, who had not fled after the incident, was handed over to the police by members of his family.
Police also found the cleaver which was used to slit the boy’s throat at the scene.
He said the cause for the man’s sudden action was not known because he did not fight or get angry with anyone in the restaurant.
The man had been remanded for further investigation. — Bernama