The woman, aged 38, was helping her sister at her vegetable stall in the market on Jalan Pahlawan, Kepayan here when the suspect confronted her here at 1.30pm.
"The man then stabbed the wife multiple times in the back before fleeing," said acting Kota Kinabalu OCPD Supt Kalsom Idris."The victim was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital I here in an ambulance but she succumbed to her injuries at 2.21pm," Supt Kalsom said. She said a team from the Criminal Investigation Department managed to locate and arrest the suspect at Jalan Kepayan at 8.30pm."We also seized a knife at the crime scene which we believe was used in the incident," Supt Kalsom said.
The suspect, a foreigner, has been remanded for investigations under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder, she added.