MAKLUMAT PILIHAN RAYA LALU BAGI DUN LUNAS
Sedikit maklumat berkenaan pilihanraya kecil Lunas
yang akan diadakan berikutan kematian Dr Joe Fernandez yang ditembak mati oleh dua
penunggang motor yang tidak dikenali.
Pilihanraya 1999
N 34 Lunas (DUN
Kedah)
Dr Joe Fernandez
(BN)
9760
M Kathiravelo
(DAP)
5060
Ibrahim H Md Rashdi
(BEBAS)
2168
Majoriti : 4700
Rosak : 685
Lunas merupakan salah satu kerusi DUN di bawah P 17 Padang Serai. Dua DUN lain
ialah Kuala Ketil dan Merbau Pulas
P 17 Padang Serai
Lim Bee Kau
(BN)
27395
Saifuddin Nasution Ismail
(KEADILAN)
18023
Majotiti : 9372
Rosak : 1349
(Analisis sumber: tat kean)
From
Singapore Straits Times
Kedah
legislator shot dead in Penang jam
A
KEDAH state assemblyman driving his car while talking on
his mobile phone was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle in Bukit Mertajam, Penang,
yesterday.
Barisan Nasional's Lunas assemblyman Dr Joe Fernandez, 54,
was shot twice in the head and once in his abdomen.
He died at the Bukit
Mertajam Specialist Centre at 3 pm.
The police have yet to confirm the motive for
the killing and described it as cold-blooded murder.
""This is
certainly not a robbery,'' said Penang deputy chief police officer Datuk Abu Kassim Md
Noor.
Police also ruled out the possibility of the involvement of hired killers
as there had been no reports of death threats to Dr Fernandez.
According to the
police, the politician, who was also Kedah Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) deputy chief,
was caught in a traffic jam at a junction in Bukit Mertajam about 2.30 pm.
Two
men on a motorbike stopped beside his Nissan Terrano and one pulled out a gun. At that
time, the doctor was on his mobile phone with an employee at his clinic nearby.
After
the shooting, the gunman walked back to his waiting accomplice and drove off, leaving
bystanders dazed.
Dr Fernandez's employee rushed to the scene on hearing the
gunshots over the phone.
He drove the doctor to the specialist centre. But it was
too late and Dr Fernandez died half an hour later.
Datuk Abu Kassim confirmed
that the police had a description of the suspects and were investigating.
The
politician leaves behind his wife, Dr Louis Mary Rose, and a daughter.
After
joining the MIC in 1975, he was elected as Kedah MIC Youth chief four years later and
retained the position until 1990.
He won the Lunas state assembly seat in 1995
and defended it successfully against three challengers in last year's general election.
