KL hostage drama ends, ex-convict dies

A 34-year-old man with a previous conviction for armed robbery, who barged into a house in Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur and took a 10-year-old girl hostage Monday, was shot by the police and died later in hospital.

The girl was unharmed.

Relating the ordeal, the girl's father, Shafrudin Marlis, 47, said that he, his wife and three children were watching TV at about 11am, when a half-naked man stormed into their home at Lorong Raja Muda Musa 6 and grabbed a knife from the kitchen.