KUALA LUMPUR, 30 Dec 2017:
Three criminals – believed to have been actively involved in robbing bank customers who had just withdrawn money in the Klang Valley and Negeri Sembilan – were shot dead by police during a shootout at Jalan Sg Tua, Hulu Yam Bharu, Batu Caves near here yesterday.
The suspects, aged 30 to 40, who were traveling in a white Suzuki Swift car, were initially detected by the police in Bandar Baru Selayang at about 6pm, before they sped off but managed to be stopped by the police.
Selangor CID chief SAC Fadzil Ahmat said at the scene the suspects refused to surrender when asked to do so, and instead fired one shot at the police.
“The police had to respond and all of them were killed at the scene.”
Fadzil said inspection of the suspects’ car led to the discovery of a pistol, four bullets, two machetes and their personal belongings.
“Identification process to ascertain whether the suspects were foreigners or locals is being carried out,” said Fadzil adding that their bodies were sent to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for post-mortem and the case was being investigated under Section 307 of the Penal Code for attempted murder.
Fadzil said Selangor recorded 86 robbery cases involving victims who had just withdrawn money from the bank with an estimated loss of RM8 million, throughout 2017.
“The police view this seriously where victims were robbed as they left the banks and urge the public to be more careful.”
Earlier, two men – one of them posing as a policeman – robbed a contractor of RM100,000 along a road near the Setia Alam National Type Tamil School yesterday.
Shah Alam district police deputy chief Supt Nek Zaidi Zakaria said the robbery took place at about 11am after the 41-year-old contractor had withdrawn the money from a bank to pay his workers and buy materials for his project from a hardware shop in Jalan Meru, Klang.
The contractor, who was driving a Toyota Hilux, was stopped at the road by the two men who had come in a Honda car, he said in a statement.
One of them, wearing a vest with the word ‘POLIS’ on it, asked for the contractor’s identity card and driving licence, he said, adding that when the contractor produced the documents the man switched off the Hilux engine and took the ignition key.
At about the same time, the other man opened the front passenger door, threatened the contractor with a machete and grabbed a bag containing the money that had been kept under the driver’s seat, and both the robbers fled in their car, he said.
– Bernama