SHAH ALAM: The public are reminded not to politicise or play up racial and religious sentiment in connection with the Coroner’s Court’s verdict of firefighter Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim’s cause of death today.
Housing and Local Government (KPKT) Minister Zuraida Kamarudin (pix) said this was because the court’s inquest was to determine the actual cause of death of the Malaysian national on duty.
While expressing her satisfaction with the verdict, the minister said the KPKT and the Fire and Rescue Department under its purview, had used every available channel to ensure that Muhammad Adib’s case would be tried fairly and justly.
“After three-month inquest proceeding, I’m glad that the Coroner’s Court’s has come out with its decision (in determining the cause of Muhammad Adib’s death).
“Now I leave it to the police for further action. I hope all Malaysians can accept the decision and that the real killers of Muhammad Adib can be brought to justice,“ she told reporters outside the court complex here.
Earlier, the Coroner’s Court established that Muhammad Adib died after he was assaulted by two or three unidentified people during a riot in the vicinity of a Hindu temple in Subang Jaya last year.
Coroner Rofiah Mohamad, who had led a 41-day inquest to determine the cause of Muhammad Adib’s death, said: “The blunt chest trauma that led to the death of Muhammad Adib was not of his own doing but the impact of the criminal acts by more than two individuals.”
Muhammad Adib, who was a member of the EMRS Unit of the Subang Jaya Fire and Rescue Station, was seriously injured during a riot outside the temple on Nov 27 last year before succumbing to his injuries on Dec 17 at the National Heart Institute. — Bernama
