The husband of a Myanmar woman was shocked when he discovered the bodies of his wife and maid at their house in Taman Malim Permai

Man horrified to find wife and maid murdered at rented house

MALACCA: The husband of a Myanmar woman was shocked when he discovered the bodies of his wife and maid at their house in Taman Malim Permai here.

The bodies of Nyat Nyat, 35, who runs a restaurant in Melaka Sentral Terminal, and her maid Taw Taw Neo, 31, were found with multiple stab wounds yesterday.

It is learnt that Nyat’s husband, identified only as Sithu, 35, arrived home at 12.45pm but found the door locked. He then called his brother-in-law who arrived promptly.

Nyat’s younger brother Nanda, 30, said both of them managed to pry open the kitchen window and were horrified to see the maid lying in the kitchen and his sister’s body in the living room.

Bittersweet: A Myanmar national known only as Sithu carrying his five-month- old daughter into an ambulance for a check-up at Malacca Hospital after her mother and maid were found stabbed to death at their home in Taman Malim Permai, Malim Jaya Saturday. Police are investigating the motive for the murders as the house was not ransacked and none of the valuables were missing. —A.MALEX YAHAYA/The Star

Nyat and her husband have been renting the house for the past six years. Besides running the restaurant, they also worked as agents bringing Myanmar migrant workers into the country.

The police found Nyat’s five-month-old daughter alive in one of the rooms of the two-storey house.

The bodies have been sent to the Malacca Hospital for post-mortem.

A neighbour, who only wanted to be known as Wan, said he heard a commotion from Nyat’s house.

“The argument stopped shortly afterwards and I saw two men calmly walking out the house and leaving on foot about an hour later,” he added.

State CID chief DCP Raja Shaharom Raja Abdullah said police were investigating the motive for the killings as the house was not ransacked and none of the valuables was missing.