SUNGAI BULOH: In pain after being doused with petrol and set ablaze by his abductors, Mohamad Syahirudin Mohd Shauki, 19 — clad only in his singed underwear — walked out of a oil palm plantation in Sungai Tengi, Gedangsa, near Kuala Kubu Baru, to seek help.
He had trekked for more than 400m before he chanced upon Kampung Sepakat Gedangsa, Hulu Selangor police chief Supt Norel Azmi Yahya Affandi said.
"Luckily, a villager found him when Mohamad Syahirudin knocked on his door at about 6.40am on Sunday," Norel Azmi said.
After giving him bread and water, the villager contacted an ambulance and allowed Mohamad Syahirudin to use the telephone.
"Ayah, saya kena bakar... (Dad, I was torched...)" were the parting words he uttered to his father over the telephone before losing conciousness while being whisked away by the ambulance to the Sungai Buloh Hospital.
"Before that, the teenager had told the villager he was abducted from his home at Kota Damansara and was taken to the oil palm plantation 94km away," Norel Azmi said.
"He said he was able to put out the fire after the assailants left the scene."
Norel Azmi said Mohamad Syahirudin lost consciousness as he was being taken to hospital, where he has been warded in the Intensive Care Unit.
The teenager, suffering from 80 per cent burns, is on life support and fighting for his life.
Norel Azmi said police went to the scene and found Mohamad Syahirudin's half-burnt shirt near the Bukit Tagar Toll Plaza.
Police believed Mohamad Syahirudin was taken by three men in a car at about midnight on Sunday and failed to return home after that.
At the hospital, Mohamad Syahirudin's sister, Sri Wahyuni, 25, said the family did not realise he had left home that night.
"He usually went out late at night to meet friends, having supper or playing futsal but he would usually come home two to three hours later," she said.
When he did not come home on Sunday, Sri Wahyuni said the family thought he was spending the night at his friend's house.
"Only when father received a call from him at about 8am did we realise what had happened."
*back into the abyss of death*
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