12 Sep 2006
Noor Adzman Baharuddin


ALOR STAR: A hawker is in a coma after two men, claiming to be car repossessors, knocked him down with his own car yesterday.

Ahmad Jalaludin Abdul Aziz, 44, suffered serious head injuries and is on a life-support system in Alor Star Hospital’s intensive care unit.

His wife, Salmah Zain, 48, watched in horror as the men ploughed into him with the couple’s second-hand Proton Iswara near their home at 11am.

She said the couple were watching television when the men barged into their home and took the car keys from her husband and tried to drive away in their car.

"My husband grabbed hold of the steering wheel but the driver kicked him. As they drove off, my husband ran after the car. The driver rammed into him and my husband was hurled into the air. He landed several metres away.

"He landed hard, head first on the ground. Then I saw blood gushing from his face," she said when met at the hospital.

Salmah said they had defaulted on their monthly car loan repayments for the past three months.

"My husband asked them for authorisation from the bank. They did not show any but behaved like thugs. They also refused to hear us out," she said.

Neighbours rushed Ahmad Jalaludin to the hospital.

Salmah has also lodged a police report. A Kota Star District police spokesman said a man, in his 30s, had been detained.