Robbery in gated residential area

SHAH ALAM: Living in a secure gated residential area is not a guarantee of being free from falling prey to criminals — a family of eight learnt when their house in Nuang Hill, U11 at Bukit Bandaraya here was broken into by a group of robbers in the wee hours on Wednesday.
Police are baffled as to how the robbers could have passed the single entry and exit point of the residential area without being detected by the security guards on duty.
There were also no closed-circuit security cameras installed at the area.
Sources said the incident involved a couple and their six children who were fast asleep when seven robbers armed with parang and believed to be Indonesians showed up in the bedroom and woke them up at about 3.30am.
They warned the man and his wife to keep calm before binding their limbs with a power cable they took from an electric kettle.
The robbers then snatched a gold necklace and bangles the 38-year-old woman was wearing and began ransacking the whole house.
Sources said the robbers who wore gloves bundled more gold jewellery, portable computers, cellphones and RM2,000 they found in other parts of the double-storey terrace house before escaping.
Four of the couple's children who were in the same bedroom and another two in another room slept through the heist and were not disturbed by the robbers.
Police who went to the scene learnt that the suspects had entered the house through a bathroom window on the ground floor and fled through an entrance of the house.
The female victim called the police after freeing herself and her husband minutes after the robbers escaped.
Shah Alam police chief ACP Shafien Mamat who confirmed the case declined to comment.