LAWYERS today inspected the Emergency Medical Rescue Services (EMRS) vehicle that was involved in Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim death.

Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Hamdan Hamzah had requested for the visit at the Subang Jaya Fire and Rescue Department after hearing the testimony of retired forensics expert Prof Dr Shahrom Abd Wahid yesterday.

Coroner Rofiah Mohamad then adjourned the proceedings for the lawyers and forensics expert to visit the fire station.

DPP Faten Hadini said the site visit was to inspect the EMRS van, especially where the door was located.

“There is some connection (to the door). This is part of the investigation.

“There is a connection to yesterday’s testimony. That’s why the forensics experts also went to see the vehicle,” she said at the Shah Alam court complex.

The van had been kept at the Subang Jaya Fire and Rescue Department since the Seafield Sri Maha Mariamman temple riots last year, and the team spent an hour inspecting it.

Shahrom, who had conducted many autopsies on unnatural deaths, yesterday said Adib sustained broken ribs after the attackers had slammed the door of the Emergency Medical Rescue Service (EMRS) vehicle against his body with severe force.

His assessment differed from the conclusions of Kuala Lumpur Hospital pathologists Dr Mohd Shah Mahmood and Dr Ahmad Hafizam Hasmi, who were present at the site visit.

Both doctors said Adib’s injuries were not consistent with someone who was attacked, but Dr Shahrom later said the fireman could not have been injured if there was no outside force.

Adib was part of a response team sent from the Subang Jaya Fire and Rescue Department station on November 27 to the temple to respond to a call that cars there had been set on fire.

He suffered injuries during the incident and died from his wounds at the National Heart Institute on December 17. – April 11, 2019.