KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 — The husband of Ambank officer Norazita Abu Talib, who was shot dead during a robbery at her bank yesterday, urged all parties to stop spreading pictures and videos of her death in respecting the family’s sensitivities.

Irwan Kamarudin, 37, said this saddened the grieving family even more because of the gruesome nature of her death.

“I hope all those who uploaded the pictures and videos will remove them,” he said when contacted by Bernama.

Norazita Abu Talib, 37, was fatally shot in the face by a 37-year-old guard at the bank located in Jalan USJ Central 2, Subang Jaya near here after she had opened the bank’s strong room to deposit money with a colleague at 6pm.

The suspect then ordered her colleague to load money from the strong room into a bag before escaping on a motorcycle.

Following the incident, pictures and a 32-second video of the aftermath of the shooting were spread on Facebook today.  

Earlier in the morning, Irwan and his two children, Nurnisa Nabilah, 12, and Muhd Hazimy, eight, family members and relatives were present at the Serdang Hospital mortuary to identify his wife’s body.

There was a pall at the mortuary with the family members and relatives sobbing while trying to console Irwan after he identified his wife’s body.

Not only that, they had to wait till 2pm for the post-mortem to be completed before her body was claimed to be buried at her home village in Kampung Air Hitam Labu, Kampar, Perak.

Nurnisa Nabilah said normally her mother would send her and her  brother to school, but yesterday, because of work committments, her father had taken over the task.

They are pupils of Sekolah Kebangsaan Subang Bestari, Subang.

“At 7.30 pm (yesterday), I received a call from an aunt that my mother was dead,” she said.

Meanwhile, the bank’s manager Lyonel Tan said he was aghast that such a tragedy befell the bank.

“Norazita was a hardworking and dedicated officer,” he said.

AmBank Group chairman, Tan Sri Azman Hashim conveyed his deepest condolences to the family of Norazita.

“On behalf of the AmBank Group, we would like to offer our deepest condolences, our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the deceased at this very difficult moment,” he said in a statement here today.

The Group was working closely with the police in the investigations on the incident and was rendering all necessary asisstance to the family members of the deceased, he added. —Bernama