MALAYSIAN STUDENT STABBED 14 TIMES IN U.K.

 

NOTTINGHAM, United Kingdom - Ahmad Izat Ahmad Mazni, a 23-year-old Malaysian student who is pursuing a bachelor degree in industrial economics at the Nottingham University, was on his way to  his friend's house in Dunkirk,  not far from his hostel at the university's Jubilee Campus, when he was attacked by three  boys on Sunday.

• Nottingham (United Kingdom) Umno Club president Nik Zakirah Farhanis Zakimi, who was told about the 6.50pm incident, said Izat sustained deep bruises and was stabbed 14 times with a pocket knife during the robbery.
• Nik Zakirah said Izat was confronted by three assailants, believed to be between 10  and 14 years old, at a small lane between Wollaton Drive Hall and Hillside.
• "They grabbed Izat's wallet and handphone  after stabbing  him with a pocket knife twice before they ran away,"  she aid.
• Izat gave chase and managed to grab the youngest member of the group.
• One of the boys stabbed him again with the knife while the other  punched  him.
  Izat managed to wrest back his wallet and handphone, but lost  his  watch  to the boys who  escaped by climbing over the fence of a nearby house.

A passer-by, who saw his trousers drenched in blood, sent him to  Queen's Medical Centre Hospital.

Nik Zakirah said doctors found 14 stab wounds on Izat's body. He  received more than 10 stitches on his chest,  abdomen and  thighs.

"The police  recorded his statement and kept his handphone to trace the fingerprints to find   the suspects," she said.

Source: Agencies