POLICE have classified the case of a woman in confinement who was discovered with a knife lodged in her neck at a house in Kampung Beris Panchor, Bachok, yesterday, as sudden death.

Bachok police chief Mohamad Ismail Jamaluddin said investigations had revealed no criminal element in the woman’s death.

“The post-mortem results of the Forensic Department at Raja Perempuan Zainab ll Hospital concluded that the cause of death was excessive bleeding from the neck area,” he said in a statement today.

In the 5pm incident yesterday, the 35-year-old woman was found bleeding by her younger brother who immediately took her to Beris Panchor Clinic, before a doctor confirmed she had died. – Bernama, April 13, 2023.