THURSDAY-6TH DECEMBER 2007-TRADER LEAPS TO HIS DEATH AT DAMAI AREA

TRADER LEAPS TO HIS DEATH AT DAMAI AREA
KOTA KINABALU:
A businessman leapt to his death from the fifth floor of a building in Damai yesterday morning. Identified as Lo Fan Kee, the 61- year-old from Taman Friendly, suffered serious head injuries and broke his left leg. Acting District Police Chief Superintendent Rowell Marong who confirmed the incident, said the police received a call on the incident at around 11am. “We immediately rushed our men to the scene to investigate,” he said when met at the scene.
Lo leaves behind a wife, 54. They are childless. It was learnt that he had been suffering from a depression after learning of his wife’s health condition. Lo was said to have left home around lOam. An eyewitness, Johnny, said he was sweeping around the area when he saw a man on the verge of jumping off the building.
“I wanted to shout and tell him to get off but the next thing I knew, he was already on the ground,” he said. Police were notified. The body has been sent for post mortem at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Meanwhile, in Johor Baru, Fire and Rescue department personnel failed to prevent a 55-year-old man Ting Bin Soon, from jumping to his death from the 10th floor of a building in a suicide incident, according to a newspaper report yesterday. In Malacca, a 56-year-old unemployed Teoh Cheng Liat, was reported to have committed suicide too by hanging himself from a tree outside his house.