The 2011 Muar kindergarten hostage crisis took place in Muar

Muar (town)

Muar, also known as Bandar Maharani is a town geopolitically situated in Muar District in the region or area of Muar in northwestern Johor, Malaysia...

, Johor

Johor

Johor is a Malaysian state, located in the southern portion of Peninsular Malaysia. It is one of the most developed states in Malaysia. The state capital city and royal city of Johor is Johor Bahru, formerly known as Tanjung Puteri...

, Malaysia on 7 July 2011. About 30 kindergarten children and four teachers of the Serikids Kindergarten in Sungai Abong

Sungai Abong

Sungai Abong is a main township in Muar, Johor, Malaysia. It is a constituency of Johor State Assembly or Dewan Undangan Negeri Johor in Bahasa Melayu situated in the parliamentary constituency of Bakri....

 were held hostages by the hammer-wielding man Lau Hui Chung, 40. All 30 kindergarten children and four teachers were saved and the suspect Lau Hui Chung was injured in his head and was taken to the Sultanah Fatimah Specialist Hospital and later he died.

External links

• Suspect in kindie hostage drama dies New Straits Times
  New Straits Times
  The New Straits Times is an English-language newspaper published in Malaysia. It is Malaysia's oldest newspaper still in print , having been founded as The Straits Times in 1845, and was reestablished as the "New Straits Times" in 1965. The paper served as Malaysia's only broadsheet format English...
  
  , Friday July 8, 2011
• Teacher: He asked me to kill him New Straits Times
  New Straits Times
  The New Straits Times is an English-language newspaper published in Malaysia. It is Malaysia's oldest newspaper still in print , having been founded as The Straits Times in 1845, and was reestablished as the "New Straits Times" in 1965. The paper served as Malaysia's only broadsheet format English...
  
  , Friday July 8, 2011