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Monday March 21, 2005

Offer to prepare family breakfast goes unfulfilled

BY PARVEEN GILL

KUALA LUMPUR: A day before she was killed, executive secretary Siti Shamiza Abu Zairin told her mother she would make breakfast for the family during the weekend.

So after work on Saturday afternoon, she went to a hypermarket in Batu Caves to buy some kuay teow soup ingredients for the meal she wanted to prepare.

However, as she was getting into her Proton Waja after finishing her shopping, a snatch thief went for her handbag,

In the ensuing struggle, the armed man fired a shot, which struck Siti Shamiza in the chest.

Siti Shamiza: Died from a gunshot to the chest.
The gunman later injured a passing motorist in the neck with another shot and threatened to shoot a woman shopper before making his escape in the terrified woman’s car.

The injured man, a 34-year-old businessman, was treated at a private clinic.

Siti Shamiza, 30, who was preparing to leave for a humanitarian mission to tsunami-hit Aceh with Yayasan Salam on March 29, was laid to rest at the Selayang Baru Muslim cemetery here yesterday morning.

Her mother, 53-year-old housewife Kamsiah Mohd Akhir, told The Star that her daughter had told the family that she wanted to cook the morning meals for her family every Sunday.

“Miza is quite manja (pampered) and making breakfast for us is something she does not normally do.

“I last spoke to her on Friday night and she told me that she would be going to buy some kuay teow soup ingredients after work,” Kamsiah said when met at the family home in Selayang Pandang near here.

She said her daughter, who was the second of five children, enjoyed taking part in company activities and had many friends.

The police have appealed to witnesses to contact the Gombak police station at 03-6138 5222 or the nearest police station.

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