A eye for an eye... How do you pay for death?

My heart goes to the family of this child, Girl killed after van rams into bike.

How do you make the culprit pay?

In Islam, 'blood money' is the compensation and only if the family of the deceased accepts to it. Else, the van driver has to be put to death!

May Allah bless the late Ratna!

The Star Online > Nation

Thursday June 9, 2005
Girl killed after van rams into bike
Other News & Views
Compiled by NG SI HOOI, K. SAITHURUKA AND T. PERIASAMY

AN eight-year old girl was killed after being dragged 400m in a hit-and-run accident.

A van had rammed into the motorcycle that she was riding pillion on.

Berita Harian reported that Ratna Prawit died on the spot in the 3.15pm incident, which occurred near Terbak, Tumpat.

She was on her way to her tuition class and on the bike ridden by her grandfather Eh Chum Eh Deng, 50. Both were thrown off the machine after the collision.

Despite sustaining injuries, Eh Chum chased after the speeding van, along with other villagers who had witnessed the accident.

The paper said the driver finally stopped the van in an alley and fled.

The villagers helped Eh Chum pull Ratna, a pupil at SRK (C) Yok Sze, from under the van.

A witness, Veena Benedict Merimdo, 45, said she thought a stray dog had been hit when she heard a loud thud.

“But I was shocked to see Eh Chum shouting his granddaughter's name numerous times and screaming that she was stuck to the bottom of the van,'' she said.

Utusan Malaysia reported that the Government would provide incentives to private bumiputra higher learning institutions which lacked capital and expertise.

Higher Education Ministry parliamentary secretary Datuk Dr Adham Baba said the incentives included exemptions for stamp duty payments and property sales tax.

He also said that such higher learning institutions, which merged to become new entities, could also continue to offer their old programmes without having to submit new applications to the ministry.

Dr Adham said this while launching a carnival at Kota Baru Polytechnic in Kok Lunas yesterday.

He was replying to comments from National Private Bumiputra Higher Learning Institutions Association president Datuk Dr Ismail Mohd Salleh that 123 such institutions had “closed shop” while 30 were “ailing” because they lacked students.

The issue came about after Mara and the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN), which usually sponsored bumiputra students, could not afford to do so.

Private bumiputra institutions are also facing stiff competition from the Education Ministry's matriculation colleges and community colleges.


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