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12 October 2015
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Abduction gone wrong
Bumbling kidnappers abduct wrong man, release him when they realise mistake
The kidnapping in KL involved the wrong victim & the crooks realised this soon after. http://ebx.sh/1G8s6kL
A group of kidnappers botched an abduction when they bundled the wrong man into their car in broad daylight in Kuala Lumpur.
They realised their mistake a few minutes into the getaway and let the man go, reported The Star.
The victim, Mr R. Karunakaran, 59, was watering his plants outside his home in the town of Kepong Baru at around 8.30am on Tuesday when a man approached him.
“He asked if I was selling the lorry parked outside my house, but he was acting very strangely so I slowly backed away.
“Suddenly, another man grabbed me and pushed me behind the lorry. I tried to struggle, but they had a parang on my neck,” he said.
The men took Mr Karunakaran’s gold chain, then shoved him into a Proton Waja and sped off.
Said Mr Karunakaran at a press conference yesterday: “They told me they were going to kill me and that there was a RM150,000 (S$50,000) price on my head.”
PHONE CALL
However, a few minutes into what he thought was “the last ride of my life”, one of the kidnappers received a phone call, he said.
“I heard him saying, ‘Oh, we got the wrong guy’. The man they were after lived in house No. 8, my house is No. 1,” he said.
He said the kidnappers quickly stopped the car and pushed him out of the vehicle before driving off.
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Star
Monday October 12, 2015 MYT 12:46:11 PM
Abductors get the wrong man
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Police release photofit of botched Kepong abduction suspect http://www.nst.com.my/news/2015/10/police-release-photofit-botched-kepong-abduction-suspect …
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KUALA LUMPUR: Police have released a photofit of one of the suspects involved in the botched abduction case in Kepong.
“With the assistance of the victim R. Karunakaran, 59, we have identified one of the four suspects as a buff Indian man with the height around 150cm to 160cm,” told Sentul OCPD Asst Comm R. Munusamy.
The faces of the other suspects couldn’t be sketched as they wore masks.
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