KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 31 -- Two men on a motorcycle targeted a 49-year-old woman outside her home in Cheras, failing to snatch her handbag before ripping a RM2,000 gold bracelet from her wrist and speeding away.

Harian Metro reported that the woman was answering a phone call in front of her house when the pair approached on a Yamaha Y15ZR motorcycle at about 11.15am yesterday.

Kajang district police chief Assistant Commissioner Naazron Abdul Yusof said one of the men got off the motorcycle and initially tried to seize the victim's handbag.

"A Yamaha Y15ZR motorcycle carrying two unidentified male suspects approached the victim, and one of the suspects got off and tried to pull away her handbag but failed.

"The suspect then snatched a gol...