KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 -- A victim of a robbery at a budget rice stall in Lebuh Meru Raya, Ipoh, yesterday said she remains traumatised by the incident.

Nor Atheerah Nadzirah Mior Ikram Shah, 21, said she has become easily startled and is now afraid to be alone following the ordeal.

"I can't be by myself, I get scared. After that, I can't handle being startled at all, anything that shocks me," she told Utusan Malaysia when met at her stall here today.

Recalling the incident, the Ipoh Vocational College diploma graduate said she had been helping her mother at the stall and was alone at the time as her mother had gone out to deliver food with an assistant.

She said two men arrived on a motorcycle and stopped at the stall before one of the...