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Six armed robbery suspects shot dead in Kulim

February 18, 2009

SUNGAI PETANI, 18 Feb 2009: Police shot dead six armed robbery suspects and detained four women in a shoot-out at a house in Kampung Kemunting, Karangan, in Kulim yesterday.

State police chief Datuk Syed Ismail Syed Azizan said that in the 10.10pm incident, a team of eight police officers, acting on a tip-off, raided a house which was believed to be used as a centre for illegal gold smelting.

“When the police barged into the house and introduced themselves, six men between the ages of 20 and 50, fired several shots at them. In defence, the police fired back and the shots hit the six suspects,” he told reporters here today.

He said four women, aged between 21 and 28, who were in the house were detained to assist police investigations.

Syed Ismail said all the suspects killed in the incident were believed to be  involved in armed-robbery cases reported in Kedah, Penang, Perak and Selangor, adding that the group’s last heist was in Sitiawan, Perak.

The house served as a place for them to smelt the gold loot obtained from their robberies, he added.

He said the identities of the suspects would be revealed after police had notified their families.

However, he said, three of them were from Kulim, one from Selama in Perak, the other had an address in Johor, while another had no personal documents on him.

On the women who were detained, Syed Ismail said they were from Penang and Bandar Baru in Kedah, adding that police were investigating their relations with the six suspects.

He said police searched the house, which was recently built, and found two pistols — a Smith & Wesson 9mm with seven rounds of ammunition and a .38 revolver with five rounds of ammunition.

Police also seized three luxury cars — a BMW, a Proton Perdana and a Cherokee four-wheel-drive vehicle — and several equipment used for gold smelting, he added. — Bernama

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: criminals, gold smelting, police, shot dead

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  1. Amutha says

    February 19, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Regards to the shoot out at Kulim on 17 Feb 2009. It was stated as “suspects” – then why is there a need for the shootout to take place? They could have been “innocent” people. Why couldn’t they have been injured and then stood for trial? Isn’t this atrocious?

  2. Shalinee says

    February 20, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    Precisely!!! Things are getting out of hand…How can the police in cold blood just shoot out.

    Nothing justifies this action. If they say its self-defence then they would have to prove that the “suspects” were actually shooting at them, which I believe was definitely not the case.. yet another case of blatant misuse of police powers! This should in no way be swept under the carpet…those accountable must be answerable for their actions!!!

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