CORONAVIRUS | A group of tabligh members who had gone to Indonesia to attend a gathering earlier this week, have been detained.
FMT reported that the group had tried to enter Sabah waters off Tawau on a boat but was intercepted by marine police, Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency and armed forces at around 3.20pm.
Authorities had been tipped off that the group would be returning this morning after they reached Sebatik Island, Indonesia.
However, it is not clear how many were detained.
Tawau police chief Peter Ambuas was quoted as saying that 12 were nabbed, but Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said at a press conference earlier that there were 11 of them.
The group are now under quarantine and are being tested for Covid-19.
The gathering was aborted on Thursday after pressure from the Indonesian government but thousands had already gathered in Gowa, near Makassar over the past few days.
Hisham said the government estimated that there are between 80 to 100 people who were planning to attend the Sulawesi gathering.
The government had said they will place them under quarantine when they return.
Concerns about the Sulawesi Tabligh gathering came following a similar gathering in Kuala Lumpur between Feb 27 and March 1, which led to many participants being infected with Covid-19.
So far at least six Malaysians from the tabligh cluster have died. - Mkini
They knew what happen in Kuala Lumpur gathering but they still proceed to do it in Indonesia. They are irresponsible human being for putting other peoples life in danger. We are talking about life and death here. Just throw them into jail for life. No reason authority has to be lenient to them. Unless we are weak when comes to religion. We bend everything even it is obviously wrong. Let us see we practise what kind of a law.
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