A MAN was found dead, with cuts on his wrist and leg, at his rented home in Taman Scientex, near Johor Baru, on Sunday morning.

Seri Alam district police chief Mohd Sohaimi Ishak said an initial investigation found that in the night before, the 28-year-old man had lost his temper when he found the neighbourhood mosque closed after Isyak prayer time.

“He punched the glass door of the mosque until it broke, and caused his hands to be covered in blood. A check on the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage found that the victim had punched the glass door twice until it broke,” he said in a statement tonight.

He said the man’s sister had revealed that he was a chemical engineer who was believed to have suffered depression as he had not been able to visit his family in Terengganu for six months.

He said the sister lived in Desa Cemerlang while the man had lived with two friends in Taman Scientex.

The body was sent to the Sultan Ismail Hospital for a post-mortem.

“The post-mortem found that the cause of death was severe wounding of the right wrist; severed blood vessels and tendons, believed to have been sustained when he smashed the glass door. The case is classified as sudden death,” he said. – Bernama, September 8, 2021.