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Friday December 10, 2010
Hunt on for suspects involved in doctor’s killing
By MUGUNTAN VANAR
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KOTA KINABALU: Police have launched a hunt for suspects involved in the brutal killing of a private doctor in the Tawau district. “We have identified certain suspects and we are taking steps to track them down,” Tawau police chief Asst Comm Ibrahim Chin said.
Dr Lim Tow Kiat (pic), a 49-year-old bachelor, was found dead lying with hands and legs bound on the floor in his Taman Bunga Tulip home at about 9am on Wednesday by a colleague.
Lim, who was from Johor but had settled in Tawau, was a well-liked doctor and provided free medical services for the poor at his clinic. Ibrahim said that police ruled out robbery as the motive as nothing was taken from the doctor’s house.
They believe that the perpetrators were known to Dr Lim whom friends described as a polite and soft-spoken man. “We don’t want to disclose anything at this moment as our investigation is ongoing,” Ibrahim said yesterday.
Ibrahim said they were checking the closed circuit camera in the doctor’s house to determine if the incident was recorded. Dr Lim is believed to have been hit on the head by a sharp object in the incident that might have occurred during the wee hours of Wednesday.
