JOHOR BAHRU — Two policemen were killed while another was injured after an unidentified assailant attacked them at the Ulu Tiram police station along Jalan Kota Tinggi early on Friday (May 17).
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain examines the scene of an attack at the Ulu Tiram police station near Johor Bahru on May 17, 2024.JOHOR BAHRU — Two policemen were killed while another was injured after an unidentified assailant attacked them at the Ulu Tiram police station along Jalan Kota Tinggi early on Friday .
“We have ordered the police Special Branch to identify and arrest the known JI members in Johor,” said Mr Razarudin in a press conference at the Ulu Tiram police station on Friday.The JI terror group is a Southeast Asian Islamist militant group based in Indonesia and has dedicated itself to forming an Islamic caliphate.Ulu Tiram is about a 40min drive north from the Woodlands Checkpoint in Singapore. It is where the families of JI member Noordin M Top and Mukhlas, one of the Bali bombers, lived.
“Another policeman came to his comrade’s aid before the suspect fatally shot him,” he said, adding the slain policemen were aged 21 and 22 and were from Kuantan, Pahang and Bidor, Perak.
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