OUT COMES THE CLOSEST TO THE TRUTH – FIREMAN ADIB MOST PROBABLY HIT BY DOOR OF REVERSING EMRS VEHICLE, SAYS FORENSIC EXPERT: ATTENTION SWIVELS TO ADIB’S COLLEAGUE DRIVING THE VAN – WHY SO ADAMANT ADIB WAS BEATEN UP BY THE INDIAN MOB – AND AGGRAVATING THE HATE ARE MINISTERS INCLUDING ZURAIDA & EVEN DR M WHO JUMPED TO CONCLUSIONS INADVERTENTLY FANNING MALAY RAGE AGAINST HINDUS

A FORENSICS expert told the coroner’s court today that deceased firefighter Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim was most probably hit by a door of a reversing vehicle to his back, which caused the fatal injuries that led to his death.

Dr Ahmad Hafizam Hasmi from Hospital Kuala Lumpur, a forensic medicine specialist who carried out Adib’s post-mortem, told the courts that in his opinion, the “most probable” cause of Adib’s injuries was an impact from the Emergency Medical Rescue Services (EMRS) vehicle as it was backing out during the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple riots in Subang Jaya.

“If indeed the deceased was outside the vehicle, standing with his back facing the EMRS, the rear left side of his ribs were hit by the edge of the front left passenger seat’s door frame as the vehicle was backing up,” he said.

Ahmad said Adib’s injuries on the left side of his ribs were caused by an impact from something straight, thin, and hard.

“This is consistent with the edge of the door hitting his rear. The edge of the door is straight, hard, and thin,” he said, adding that the first seven of Adib’s hind ribs had suffered fractures.

“The fractures on his hind ribs match the profile of the door because his fractures were sustained in a thin, straight line,” he told coroner Rofiah Mohamad.

Ahmad said he had been asked by the police to attend a reconstruction of the riots to ascertain how the firefighter sustained his injuries after being briefed on what happened that night.

He said that as a result of being hit on his back, the force caused Adib to lurch forward and fall on a hard and wide surface, which also injured his right rib cage.

“The impact from the door frame caused the deceased to lurch forward and fall, which caused him to hit a hard and wide surface on which his torso scraped, causing fractures in his front ribs.

“He had most probably collided with a hard, raised surface, most likely the road curb,” he said.

Ahmad said that scratches on Adib’s right knee and left elbow were also consistent with him falling forward as a cause of the impact.

He also told the court that the second, third, fourth, and fifth ribs on the right front of Adib’s body were broken, with the third rib broken in three places and the fourth in two places.

Ahmad said that the broken fourth and fifth ribs had pierced his right lung, causing him to have lung failure, subsequently causing his death.

Ahmad, the 24th witness in the inquest to Adib’s death, was answering questions from DPP Hamdan Hamzah.

He said that it was inconclusive to say if Adib was pulled out of the vehicle or he came out on his own.

He also added that the incident happened in about approximately 10 seconds.

Adib succumbed to injuries on December 17 at the National Heart Institute.

Medical witnesses said he died due to multiple organ failure.

Today is day 16 of the inquest. It continues with Ahmad’s testimony next Tuesday.

MALAY MAIL