KUALA TERENGGANU (Sept 26, 2011): Responding to a tap on the car window yesterday at a traffic intersection here, Deputy Public Prosecutor Zalina Awang found herself staring into the muzzle of a pistol.
She froze momentarily as a motorcyclist, believed to be in his 50s, pointed a Walther pistol at her as she stopped for the lights at the Jalan Sultan Ismail intersection at about 11am.
As the lights turned green, a shocked Zalina, 39, who was on her way to a shop with her 14-year-old daughter, accelerated and drove towards Jalan Syed Husin with the gunman on her tail.
She stopped the car in front of the Kuala Terengganu City Council bus station, but the man was nowhere in sight.
Zalina then drove straight to her office here and then lodged a report at the Kuala Terengganu district police headquarters at about 2pm.
Terengganu police chief Datuk Jamshah Mustapa said today police suspected it to be a form of threat in view of Zalina’s job as a deputy public prosecutor and her handling of criminal and high-profile cases.
“We will leave no stone unturned in our investigation to trace the culprit,” he said.
He appealed to eye-witnesses to contact the Kuala Terengganu district police headquarters at 09-632 2222 or the investigating officer, ASP Abdul Malik Mehat, at 019-413 5595 to assist in the investigation. – Bernama
