Two officers killed in suspected JI assault on Malaysian police station | Police Information

The incident befell within the southern state of Johor within the early hours of Friday morning.

Two cops have been killed and one injured in Malaysia after a person suspected to be a part of the hardline Jemaah Islamiyah group stormed a police station.

The assault befell within the early hours of Friday morning within the city of Ulu Tiram within the southern state of Johor as police on responsibility handled a pair who had mentioned they wished to make an announcement a few two-year-old incident, Inspector Common of Police Razarudin Husain was quoted as saying within the New Straits Occasions newspaper.

Whereas the group was speaking the suspect arrived behind the station on a motorbike, armed with a machete.

When an officer confronted the person, he lashed out with the machete, grabbing the policeman’s service revolver to shoot lifeless the second officer.

Razarudin mentioned investigators suspected the person, who was shot lifeless by a 3rd officer who was injured after being slashed with the machete, was planning to grab weapons for a “but to be decided agenda”.

Razaurdin informed Malaysian media that police raided the suspect’s home, not removed from the police station, and located “quite a few JI-related paraphernalia”. 5 members of his household have been arrested, together with the suspect’s 62-year-old father who police mentioned was a “recognized JI member”. The 2 individuals who have been lodging the police report have been additionally detained.

Different members of JI residing within the state, which borders Singapore, have been additionally being arrested, the Malay Mail information outlet quoted Razarudin as saying.

Jemaah Islamiyah is an al-Qaeda-affiliated group that aimed to ascertain a hardline Islamic state in Indonesia and throughout Southeast Asia.

At its top within the 2000s, JI was alleged to have members from Indonesia to Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia and the Philippines, and masterminded a sequence of lethal bombings, together with the October 2002 assault in Bali that killed greater than 200 folks.

A few of its most outstanding leaders have been Malaysian, together with Noordin Muhammad High who acted as a recruiter, strategist and financier for the group and was wished for involvement in a string of assaults in Indonesia.

Noordin was from Johor and was reported to have based a non secular faculty in Ulu Tiram.

JI is banned in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.