September 30, 2007 By Roger J. Duyong SARAWAK/MALAYSIA: The six year-old who had been a victim of the first ever hostage taking case here in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, is fighting for his life in the hospital’s intensive care unit, after has been reported to lose a lot of blood.
The boy, Lok Chee Meng, had lost three of his fingers in the hostage drama done to him by his own uncle. Newspaper reports from this oil and gas town of Bintulu said that Chee Meng who has yet to regain consciousness, had undergone a second operation to re-attach the three fingers he lost. The fingers however, could not be re-attached since they had parted for more than eight hours, according to the doctors operating on him, saying that the nerves did not respond.
When the Special Strike Force of Police stormed the room where the deranged man, Jimmy 49, was holding the boy hostage and was shot dead on the head and abdomen, he had already severed the boy’s three fingers.
The father, Lok Fong Sang 65, when asked by journalists said he would have to pray to God that his son would survive the ordeal, adding that the boy had undergone so much pains and agony. He was wondering why he had to undergo such an ordeal at such a tender age. Fong Sang promised that he would do his best to help his son go through this and would do everything in his power to give the best medication to the youngest child in the family. He said that he would be there to help his young son over come the psychological impact the drama has on him.
Describing the hostage taker as ungrateful, Fong Sang, who operates a 40-hactare palm oil farm, said he would not spend a single for Jimmy’s body.
“It’s just like a dog that bites the hand that feeds it,” he was quoted as saying. Even his own family was extremely angry to him over the episode, Fong added.
Jimmy had injured his own wife by slashing her on the neck and stabbing her in the back, over what was said stemming from a trivial matter and not over an affair as reported earlier.
Meanwhile, Long Fong Sang told journalists at the hospital that he would also consider of sending the son to Kuching General Hospital, in Kuching at the state capital, if the boy’s condition improved a little bit. He said that with complete facilities and experts in Kuching he hoped to hasten the recovery of his son.
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