MELAKA: A housewife was found dead with stab wounds in the chest in the bathroom of her house at Taman Vista Kirana in Bukit Katil here yesterday.
Melaka Tengah district police chief Christopher Patit said Tan See Jie, 34, was discovered by her aunt, Lim Geok Leng, 65, lying in a pool of blood in the bathroom at 3.30pm.
“Based on the initial investigation, the victim was found with three stab wounds in the left chest.
“A knife was also found embedded in the victim’s left chest.
“At the time of the incident, the victim was home with her aunt and seven-year-old son. Her husband was away working,” he said in a statement today.
Christopher said closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera footage showed no movement in and out of the house through the front and back doors.
The house had also not been ransacked, he said.
The body was sent to the Melaka Hospital for a post-mortem.