Astro AWANI staff stabbed, now in critical condition

Ahmad Hawari Zakaria, 33, who works in production, was attacked at his apartment at Jalan Usahawan, near Setapak here by a man believed to be an acquaintance of one of his housemates.

Ahmad Hawari’s mother, Tamam Vanjour Hussin said she got a call from her son just moments after he suffered the attack, which was close to midnight.

“He told me, somebody had beaten him up and his stomach hurts. He said an ambulance had been called, and then he just couldn’t talk because he was in so much pain,” Tamam told Astro AWANI when met at the hospital today.

She said she and her husband then rushed to car, and began calling up hospitals to find out where their son was taken to.

When they called up Kuala Lumpur Hospital – the second hospital that they called – they were told that no such patient had been brought in yet.

“I was asked to call them up again in 20 minutes, so I did. My son still hasn’t arrived. Only when I called them up again the next time that I was told my son was there,” said Tamam.

Meanwhile, according to the police report lodged by the building’s security guards, the guards claimed that they received a call about a fight that was happening on the building’s 22nd floor.

The guards claimed they saw the victim in a quarrel with a group of seven men. The guards were trying to break up the fight when suddenly one man from the group stabbed the victim with a knife.

The police have yet to establish a solid motive for the attack.

Due to excessive bleeding, Ahmad Hawari has since underwent two surgeries at the hospital, on his diaphragm and lungs.

He is now under observation at the hospital’s intensive care unit.