Kuala Lumpur: The dying words of Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, were "very painful, very painful, I was sprayed liquid", the media reported.

Poisoned and left to die, Kim Jong Nam staggered through the fourth floor of a Malaysian airport, looking for anyone to help him, the New York Post reported on Friday, citing China Press, a Chinese-language paper in Malaysia.

He desperately ambled about 50 feet and found a receptionist at the airport service counter.

Clinging to life, Kim Jong Nam managed just a few words that would turn out to be his last: "Very painful, very painful, I was sprayed liquid," according to reports citing the China Press.

The staffer flagged down an auxiliary policeman, who helped take the portly Jong Nam to a clinic on the airport's third floor.

But he quickly slipped into unconsciousness.

A doctor there knew things were dire, and rushed the 45-year-old to Putrajaya Hospital near Kuala Lumpur Airport, but it was too late. It was craps for the casino-loving jet-setter - he was pronounced dead on arrival.

His mysterious murder - occurring Monday morning in the crowded departure terminal of the airport - has triggered a massive police manhunt that has led to the arrests of the two women who authorities say doused Jong Nam's face with a toxic spray.

Family and friends of one female suspect, Siti Aisyah, 25, were stunned by news of her arrest, collectively describing her as a "nice girl." 

The other woman, Doan Thi Hoang, 28, has been dubbed the "LOL assassin" because she was caught on video surveillance wearing a white shirt emblazoned with the acronym for "laughing out loud."-IANS