The Home Ministry has been urged to take immediate action on the serious crime situation that is affecting the people by the day, with the latest, cruelly carried out incident being the brutal murder of a former Kemas teacher.

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng made the call today when offering his condolences to the family of Sadariah Tohbasar Ahmad, who was cruelly murdered during a robbery at her shophouse in Sungai Besar in Sabak Bernam, Selangor, early yesterday.

2012 selangor dap convention 041112 lim guan eng "DAP offers its condolences to the victim's family and condemns the incident in the strongest terms.

"At the same time, we call on Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein to do something to manage and curb crime that is increasingly affecting people from all walks of life in Malaysia," Lim said.

"DAP hopes that the authorities will take immediate actions regarding such matters, regardless of the victims involved."

The killing robbery took place about 4.45am yesterday after two masked men armed with parang broke into the shophouse of Sadariah, 65, and suffocated her to death with her pillow when she put up a resistance.

The robbers broke through the back door and they also attacked her grandson, Mohammad Hafizul Azwan, and made him watch them kill Sadariah.

Lim said: "Despite claims of reduction in crime rates in the nation, the cruel and inhuman murder of the senior citizen, Sadariah Tohbasar proves that such crimes are not only directed at the upper class citizens but also at the lower class citizens as well.

"The statistics produced by the federal government to prove reduction in crime rates in Malaysia under the National Key Results Areas (NKRA) does nothing to console the family of the victim, Sadariah Tohbasar.

"Anyone in Malaysia is at risk of being a victim of murder and robbery if even the poor are not excluded when it comes to brutal crimes."