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MELAKA (Bernama): An elderly man was burned to death in a car after the vehicle caught fire in an incident at Jalan Abadi 9, Taman Malim Jaya here on Saturday (October 31).
Melaka Tengah District Police Chief, ACP, Afzanizar Ahmad, said that in the 2.30pm incident, the charred body of Lai Hee Miow, 65, was found in the front passenger seat of a Proton Iswara.
He said the car, which was registered to the victim’s son, was parked on the shoulder of the road near a corner not far from the deceased’s home.
“Before the incident, the victim’s daughter, who returned home around 1.45pm, said she saw her father happily sitting in the front passenger seat.
“However, 45 minutes later, when the victim’s relatives ran out of the house after hearing screams of fire, they saw that the car was on fire and the neighbors were putting out the flames,” he said in a statement here tonight.
Afzanizar said neighbors only became aware of the incident when flames had already taken over the car.
He said that according to the victim’s family members, the victim, who had been receiving mental health treatment at Pantai Hospital here since 2017, had never left her home since the motion control order (MCO) was implemented in March.
However, he said the victim refused to go for her check-up in June and had not been taking her medication.
“The cause of the fire is still under investigation, and initial investigations found that there is no element of mischief in the incident,” he added. – Bernama
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