[Sunday, October 10, 2004]
hmm....
MAIL HIGHLIGHTS
'Double Shock
Muzliza Mustafa
GOMBAK, Oct 7:
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Fate dealt a cruel double blow against three young children as first, their father, and then their mother, were electrocuted yesterday.
For 13-year-old Lim Hui Ee, especially, it was a tragedy that will be forever etched in her mind as she was the one who found her father's motionless body in the upstairs bathroom about 11am and called her mom who rushed home only to suffer a similar fate.
Hui Ee was earlier watching television in the living room of their double-storey link house in Taman Seri Gombak when she went upstairs to check on her father, contractor Lim Kuan Soo, 50.
Shocked at what she saw, Hui Ee called her mother, Chui Nyok Lan, 40, who was working at a factory in Selayang. She told her mother how she found her father unconscious in the bathroom.
Hui Ee was unaware that her father was electrocuted while using the water heater in the bathroom.
Chui, who was under the impression that her husband was still alive, rushed home to take him to the hospital.
When she reached home, Chui rushed upstairs and grabbed her husband — and was electrocuted as well.
On finding both her parents motionless, Hui Ee screamed for help.
Neighbours who heard her cries called the cell phone emergency number 112.
Meanwhile, Hui Ee contacted her aunt, Lim Moi Lan, 45, in Subang Jaya, to inform her that her parents were "unconscious".
The shocked aunt urged Hui Ee to get help from the neighbours before her arrival.
"As I am staying some distance away, I advised Hui Ee to seek help from the neighbours before I arrived there," she said.
"I thought her parents could be saved... I never expected this to happen." Moi Lan said she would take care of the three children, Hui Ee, her brother Sei Kai, 11, and Hui Sin, four, for the time being.
"As for the youngest child, I do not know how to break the news to her," said Moi Lan in between sobs.
She said it was just a year ago that Hui Ee and Sei Kai came to stay with their parents. Previously, their grandparents in Malacca took care of them.
Moi Lan said the last time she saw Lim was on Oct 3, during their mother's 88th birthday celebrations at her house in Subang Jaya.
Neighbour Jayadevan Ramakrishnan, 32, said Lim and his family were very friendly.
"They have only been here for three years, but we became close friends," he said.
Meanwhile, a team from Tenaga Nasional Berhad's supply management centre conducted checks on the electricity connection to the heater.
They, however, declined to comment.
yess,i look like 13 yrs old..
but i dun live in malaysia....
hahha....
-- 21:11
