Kuala lumpur: Police have confirmed that the son of a former minister was assaulted at a shopping mall in Putrajaya, here this afternoon. Selangor police chief Datuk Shazeli Kahar said the incident is believed to have occurred at 2 pm at the mall’s pick-up and drop-off area.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, Shazeli stated that the victim was reportedly with his mother and their driver at the time of the incident. The boy is currently undergoing further examination at a hospital in Selangor. Shazeli added that investigations are ongoing, and police are reviewing the closed-circuit television footage from the scene.

Meanwhile, former Economy Minister Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli confirmed that the incident involved his son. Rafizi detailed in a Facebook post that around 1.45 pm, as his son and wife were getting into their car to leave the shopping mall, a man grabbed his son and pricked him with a syringe.

Rafizi further explained that the assault involved two men on a motorcycle, dressed in black attire and helmets, who he claimed had been following his wife’s car. He mentioned that his son has been taken to UPM (Universiti Putra Malaysia) Hospital for treatment and that the police were at the scene immediately after the incident. Rafizi and his family have provided statements to the police regarding the matter.

Rafizi expressed that in all his years in politics, his family has never encountered such an ordeal before.