AN INMATE of a drug rehabilitation centre in Padang Rengas, Kuala Kangsar is believed to have died from severe injuries sustained during an amok incident on Wednesday.

Acting Perak Police Chief Azizi Mat Aris said his department received a report from a doctor on duty at the Kuala Kangsar Hospital about the death of a 25-year-old man who was unconscious when brought in by car at 8.10pm. 

“The doctor who examined the patient certified that the patient was already dead.”

“The patient was brought by a religious scholar and three wardens from the rehabilitation centre and the doctor was informed that the victim had been unconscious since about 7pm.”

“The victim was then taken to the emergency department for a Covid-19 test and X-ray of the victim’s whole body because there were bruises on the forehead, face, left eye, chest, both legs and hands,” he said in a statement in Ipoh today.

He said results of preliminary investigations involving the founder and warden of the rehabilitation centre revealed that during the afternoon the victim was talking to himself and tried to escape but was held before he tried to injure one of the wardens by using a knife and later ran amok.

According to him, the victim was successfully calmed down after a scuffle with the warden who punched the victim’s body several times. However, at 4.45pm, the victim tried to escape again and jumped from the stairs of the first floor of the building which is about eight metres high.

Azizi said after that, the victim’s legs and hands were tied and he was confined to a guest room, but the victim hit his head on the floor and wall several times until he bled before the warden found the victim unconscious at 7.45pm and then took him to the hospital.

He said an autopsy done at Kuala Kangsar Hospital’s Forensic Unit this morning revealed that the cause of death was due to chest and musculoskeletal injuries due to blunt trauma.

Following these findings, police arrested the religious scholar and three wardens, aged between 20s and 30s, to assist investigations under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder. – Bernama, August 19, 2022.