Elderly Maalhos couple were home alone; husband killed with blows to head

An elderly couple were living in their home in AA. Maalhos alone when an as-of-yet unknown assailant attacked the husband as he was sleeping on early Sunday, killing him with vicious blows to his head.

Abdul Rahman Adam, 65, Orchidmaage, 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.

Sun has been informed that the attacks were directed to his head.

Councilman Mohamed Nafiz told Sun that Abdul Rahman was a fisherman, and was often away from home working on fishing boats from other islands.

Nafiz said he did not even realize Abdul Rahman was back in Maalhos until he learnt of his brutal murder.

Abdul Rahman and his wife Nazima Ibrahim, 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. Meanwhile, the son who lives with them in Maalhos, an ambulance driver for the Maalhos Health Center, had been away in Male’.

It had been Abdul Rahman’s wife who called the ambulance.

The couple’s son said that his mother had been sleeping in a separate room, and woke up to the sound of footsteps, as the assailant fled the house. She rushed to her husband’s room to find him bleeding from his wounds.

Locals 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.