RAWANG, MALAYSIA - Four gunmen pointed their guns at two young children at their home, on Monday night, in a case which took criminal intimidation to a new low.

The gunmen were looking for the children's father but he was outstation on business. Thinking the man's wife was bluffing, they pointed the pistols to the heads of the 3-year-old boy and his 2-year-old sister.

The woman, Noor Hayanie Kamarulzaman, slammed the sliding door shut and hid with her children in a room at the back of their Taman Widuri home in Bukit Beruntung, near here, until police arrived.

Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said police were now waiting to question Noor Hayanie's husband as the gunmen had wanted to see him.

He declined to comment further as investigations were still under way.
The incident occurred about 10.30pm on Monday.

Noor Hayanie, a 22-year-old housewife, was at home with her children, Mohd Amir Asyraf and Nur Farisha Irwayu, when she noticed a car parked in her porch.

"I opened the sliding door and at once, four men got out, pulled out guns and demanded to see my husband.

"I was terrified but they did the unthinkable. They pointed the guns at my children," she told the New Straits Times.

"I was terrified. I called the Bukit Sentosa police station several times but they did not seem to believe me as they claimed that my address did not exist. I then called a relative and several minutes later a patrol car arrived at my house but by then the gunmen had left."

Khalid, however, clarified that police had received a call from Noor Hayanie at 11.15pm and a patrol car arrived at the house 25 minutes later.

After getting the initial story from Noor Hayanie, police took her and her children to the Bukit Sentosa police station.

Police are hoping that Noor Hayanie will be able to identify the four suspects, said to be in their 20s, as she had a good look at them when they confronted her.

Noor Hayanie suspected that the gunmen were hired by a friend of her husband. The men had a falling out with each other recently.

She claimed that, on Sunday, the former friend had called and threatened to kill her entire family.

Initial police investigations revealed that Noor Hayanie's husband is a car repossessor and Monday's incident could be the result of business rivalry.