HIDING...Police
believe the fugitives are still in the Tasek Gelugor area.
GEORGE TOWN : Penang police
have deployed 120 policemen to track down the seven detainees who escaped after
blinding their police escorts with chilli powder and hijacking the police van
taking them to the Butterworth courts complex yesterday.
State Chief Police Officer
Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi said today personnel from the General Operations Force
and the Bukit Aman police air unit were also helping in the search.
“We believe the detainees
are still in the Tasek Gelugor area. Police have set up roadblocks there,” he
told reporters after a visit to Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina (SJKC) Li Tek A
here.
He advised members of the
public to contact any police station if they came across anyone behaving in a
suspicious manner, and warned that the detainees were dangerous and aggressive.
He also said that police
were trying to determine how the detainees got hold of the chilli powder which
they hurled at their police escorts before fleeing.
The incident happened at
about 9am yesterday when police were taking nine detainees from the Penang
Prison to the Butterworth courts complex in a police van.
Some of the detainees
pretended to quarrel among themselves, forcing the policemen to stop the van at
the outer ring road to investigate.
The detainees then blinded
the policemen with the chilli powder and beat them up before hijacking the van.
Police arrested two
detainees who had remained in the van which was found abandoned in Kampung
Padang Chempedak in Tasek Gelugor near here. (Bernama)
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