SANDAKAN, April 23 (Bernama) -- In a freak twist of fate, a restaurateur
fatally stabbed herself when she slipped and fell on a six-inch knife she was
holding at her restaurant in Taman Yeng Seng near here today.
Cynthia Tan Kian Hoon, 41, a mother of two, succumbed to a single stab
wound, minutes later, at the kitchen of Restoran Hello about 6.20am.
The police do not suspect foul play.
District acting police chief Supt Fadzil Mohd Ali said Tan was about to
begin her usual routine of cutting vegetables and onions at the kitchen of the
restaurant when the mishap occurred.
He said the knife had pierced the right side of the victim''s chest when she
slipped on the floor.
"Her younger brother and a male worker who were at the front of the
restaurant, heard her screams for help and went to her aid.
"An ambulance from the Duchess of Kent Hospital was despatched to the scene
but Tan was already dead," said Fadzil.
He said a post-mortem by the hospital''s pathologist revealed a severed
artery as the cause of death.
-- BERNAMA
HG ELM GR
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