Nazima Ibrahim woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of rushed footsteps only to find her husband Abdul Rahman Adam brutally attacked and bleeding in the next room.
65-year-old Abdul Rahman of Orchidmaage in AA. Maalhos, was rushed to the local health center at around 01:50 am on Sunday. According to the police, he was inflicted “serious injuries” while he was sleeping in his home. He succumbed to his injuries at dawn.
Abdul Rahman and his wife Nazima, a council assistant at the Maalhos Council, had been living in home alone at the time of the murder. The couple have three children, two of whom reside in other islands. Ahmed Nimal, the son who lives with them in Maalhos, an ambulance driver for the Maalhos Health Center, had been away in Male’.
Abdul Rahman was a fisherman, and was often away from home working on fishing boats from other islands.
Nimal told Sun that his father returned to Maalhos after a fishing trip on July 7. Nimal, who had left for Male’ the next day, is now on his way back to Maalhos.
Nimal said what while his parents usually slept together in the same room, they had slept in separate rooms on Saturday night. She woke up from her sleep to the sound of someone running out of the house.
She looked out of her bedroom to find the main door to the house ajar.
“She went into my father’s room and found so much blood,” said a distraught Nimal.
Sun has been informed that the attacks were directed to his head.
DOOR LEFT UNLOCKED
Nimal said that one of the two doors to the house is usually left unlocked.
“We never gave it a second thought. It’s an island like that. Nothing untoward has ever happened there. That’s why it was left unlocked. I am not aware of a key getting lost or anything like that,” he said.
Nimal believes the assailant entered the house through that door.
ZERO SUSPECTS
Nimal said that he cannot think of anyone who could have committed such a horrific act. He said he would have never left his parents alone if he had any inkling of such a thing.
“I would have never left my father at home. I just don’t know right now,” he said.
Nimal cannot think of anyone who harbored resentment or any ill will towards his father.
This feeling of bewilderment is echoed by local residents, who report that Abdul Raheem and his family lived a simple life, and cannot think of anyone who had a grudge against him or any possible motivation for his murder.
A special investigation team has been deployed from the capital to Maalhos to investigate the case.