Another pregnant women death cause of snatch theft

After 24 hours, women pregnant death because of snatch theft, today one more same cases happen at Kelantan..

From Thestar

By SYED AZHAR and C.A. ZULKIFLI

KOTA BARU: Another pregnant woman met with a tragic end in a snatch theft when she fell off her motorcycle and was run over by a car.

Handbag slung around her neck, Saripah Mohd Nor, 34 and four months’ pregnant (pic), was riding her motorcycle through Kampung Padang Raja, Melor, Ketereh, here yesterday morning when two snatch thieves pounced on her.

One of the thieves tugged at her bag till the strap broke. Saripah’s motorcycle then grazed the suspects’ motorcycle and she fell off her vehicle. A car travelling in the opposite direction rammed into Saripah, killing her on the spot.

It was the second such death in just days.

In Ayer Hitam, Johor, on Sunday, expectant mother Jamilah Selamat, 31, fell off her motorcycle onto the pavement when snatch thieves grabbed her bag. She went into a coma and died on Tuesday.

Kota Baru OCPD Asst Comm Zahruddin Abdullah appealed to anyone with information to help police nab the snatch thieves.

He added that the driver of the car had lodged a police report.

In Tumpat, Saripah’s grief-stricken mother, Hashimah Hussin, 54, said her daughter was in the midst of a divorce from Mat Zani Awang, 39.

She said Saripah had five children and was on her way to Mat Zani’s house to bring her eight-year-old son back when the incident happened.

“Her last words to me were to take care of her three-year-old and youngest daughter before she left for her husband’s home in Bachok.

“Lately, she has always been telling me to take care of her children if anything happened to her.”
Saripah was buried at the Kampung Kok Bedullah Muslim cemetery yesterday.