Malaysian man castrates wife's lover

Kuala Lumpur
August 10, 2004

A Malaysian truck driver who found his wife having sex with a neighbour in a car castrated him with a machete before stabbing him and fleeing, local media reported yesterday.

The 34-year-old woman drove off in the car with her mortally wounded lover beside her - both of them still naked - but crashed into a ditch after travelling a few kilometres near Semberan, south of Kuala Lumpur.

The mother of three was uninjured but the man, N Govindaraj, 39, was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital, several newspapers reported.

Govindaraj, who had three children of his own, was also a truck driver and was said to have been a close friend of the woman's husband, who has been arrested.