KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 — MCA is urging authorities to improve security outside the Seremban church where a nun suffered an eventually-fatal beating during a robbery last week, saying that the incident was not isolated.
Citing reports of other incidents of snatch theft in the vicinity, MCA Syariah Law and Policy Implementation Special Task Force deputy chairman Datuk Koo Chin Nam suggested increased police presence at the site.
“I urge the police to conduct more frequent patrols and enforcement around the church especially in the early morning hours,” Koo said in a statement.
“I also call upon the Seremban Municipal Council to mount more street lightings as well as CCTVs (closed-circuit television cameras) in that vicinity in order to deter would-be criminals.”
He added that while a police have set up a mobile centre opposite the church, Koo hoped that it would be a “permanent feature there.”
In the attack last week, two elderly nuns — Julianna Lim Nyo Nya, 69, and Marie-Rose Teng, 79 — had their handbags snatched from them at 6am at the main entrance of the Church of Visitation.
Their attacker used a helmet to hit them, leaving Lim in a coma and Teng unconscious for a day.
Lim never awoke from the coma and succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday.
Lim’s bag only contained RM10 and three pocket bibles, while Teng’s contained “a little” cash and a mobile phone, according to Negri Sembilan police chief Datuk Osman Salleh.
