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Monday, August 19, 2013

Outrage over Sg Nibong police shootings


Family members of five men who were shot dead by police in Sungei Nibong caused a big commotion at the Penang Hospital this evening, expressing anger over the incident.
 
Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar told a press conference in Penang this afternoon that the five were shot dead at an apartment at 4.30am. 
 
Khalid said his men fired in self-defence and that ballistics tests from weapons recovered at the apartment showed these were linked to 10 murder cases and two attempted murder cases.
 
This explanation did not go down well with about 100 family members and friends of the deceased, who said that there were still many unanswered questions. 
 
A family member of one of the men shot dead, VR Murugersan, toldMalaysiakini that the five were shot "like animals" by the police. 
 
"Why need to shoot like that? They could arrest first. Police are liars when they said they shot in self-defence," he said. 
 
Multiple shots fired 
 
Nadarajah Somasundram, 62, who is the uncle of one of the dead men, claimed that the five were shot multiple times and that it was likely that semi-automatic rifles were involved. 
 
"We want to know why they were shot 20 to 30 times. It happened inside the condominium. Why can't the police give warning shots? 
 
sg nibong shooting 190813"We will not take the bodies unless we have a proper post-mortem report," Nadarajah said, adding that a police report on the matter would be lodged. 
 
Other family members and friends gathered near the mortuary lost their composure outside the mortuary and were heard screaming hysterically. 
 
A woman had to be carried away after she fainted upon identifying the body of her son. 
 
An irate youth was seen throwing his helmet in a fit of rage before he was calmed down by others. 
 
A new trend?
 
Seri Delima assemblyperson RSN Rayer said the families have been waiting outside the mortuary since 11am. 
 
"They were waiting many hours and could enter the mortuary only at 6pm. 
 
sg nibong shooting 190813"There were three other cases like that, unresolved, and now another has happened. We will ask for an independent second post-mortem," said Rayer, a lawyer by profession. 

Rayer said that the similar cases took place in Kulim in 2008 and in Tanah Merah in 1998. In both incidents, six Indians were killed.
 
He said the family members have denied that the five were involved in the recent spate of shootings, and neither did they have underworld links.

“The families of two of the men believe that they do not have any criminal record. Even if they did, they should have been questioned, not shot dead,” he said.

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