2 BRITISH MEDICAL STUDENTS STABBED IN MALAYSIAN STATE OF SARAWAK

 

KUCHING, Sarawak, Malaysia - Two unfortunate British medical students were stabbed to death in Malaysia on Wednesday (local time) after a quarrel with four local men, officials and media reports said.
The two students were found lying in a road in Kuching early Wednesday with stab wounds in the back and chest, Malaysia's The Star newspaper said.
It quoted police as saying the students and four suspects began quarreling in a pub. 

The suspects followed the students when they left the pub and attacked them after pursuing them in a car, Sarawak police Deputy Commissioner Chai Khin Chung said.
He said police have arrested three of the suspects and are searching for the fourth. Police also seized the suspects' car and a knife allegedly used in the attack, the newspaper said.
"The main suspect, aged 23, is in custody," it quoted Chai as telling a news conference.
Britain's Newcastle University identified the students as Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger and said they were working on a six-week placement with five other medical students in a hospital in Kuching. 
One of the suspected killers of the two British medical students, who were stabbed to death in Kuching  said he was enraged after one of the Brits slapped him during a row that broke out between them in an all-night coffee shop where they had been drinking, police sources said.

The source said the suspect and his three friends first tried to grab and assault Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger, both 22, who were on a six-week work placement at the Sarawak general hospital, but they managed to flee the coffeeshop.
The suspect and his friends then used their car to chase Dalton and Brunger and caught up with them 50 metres down the road as they were walking to their backpacker lodging house about 1km away, said the source.
What followed next in the 4.15am incident was related by a witness who told police one of the men alighted from the car holding what looked like a knife.
The witness said the man chased both the Brits, stabbing the first once, before chasing down the other and stabbing him a few times.

Source: Agencies