The police are unable to confirm or deny that one of its personnel was beheaded during the clash with armed intruders in Kampung Sri Jaya Simunul, Semporna on Saturday.
This is despite the fact that the bodies of all six police personnel have been returned to their kin.
Speaking to reporters in Lahad Datu today, Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar said he has yet to see the post-mortem reports.
Reporter: Is it true that one of the police officers who was killed was beheaded?
Ismail: You've seen some of the pictures, we don't know lah.
Reporter: Yesterday you said you were going to see the post-mortem report, so is it true?
Ismail: [Whispers to Sabah police chief Hamza Taib briefly] The police have not seen the post-mortem report yet. I've not seen the post-mortem report yet.
Utusan Malaysia today reported that one police personnel was trapped during the incident before he was beheaded, whereas another police personnel was stabbed and gutted.
The police officers had entered the village on Saturday evening when responding to reports of people bearing arms, but ran into an ambush.
An operation to sweep the area yesterday found six police officers killed, with another six unidentified bodies believed to belong to the intruders.
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What are you trying to insinuate by posting this article? This copy-paste article from MalaysiaKini comes across as uncouth and even biadap.
ReplyDeleteThere must be a good reason why the Police was initially silent on the beheading and mutilation news. If you're in Semporna, you'd know the reason: It's to prevent mass panic and fear among the civilians there. It's not the Police's job to provide live tweet of live kills per hour for you fanboys.
Btw, the Police finally confirmed it yesterday, you happy now? That's what you've been wanting to hear, right? http://my.news.yahoo.com/bodies-semporna-were-mutilated-confirm-police-043241669.html
I suggest you show more respect to our security forces who are putting their lives on the line, protecting our lives here in Sabah. If you don't have more productive thing to do or say, keep it to yourself.