OVERTAKE
.....Security forces using a CB90 speed boat to overtake any boats or vessels
that intrudes into East Sabah waters during Ops Daulat.
By : AVILA GERALDINE
LAHAD DATU: Security forces
patrolling the waters off Sungai Bilis, here, were involved in a gunfight with
three Sulu intruders early yesterday.
No one was wounded in the
incident which occurred at about 7.30am but the security forces found a pistol,
ammunition and a machete in the mangrove swamp nearby where the gunmen escaped.
Sabah police commissioner
Datuk Hamza Taib said the gunmen were on the beach and on seeing the police
boat, they opened fire.
A shootout ensued and the
gunmen retreated into a mangrove swamp.
Security forces nearby then
gave chase but lost the gunmen. They, however, found the weapons.
Hamza said Sungai Bilis was
close to Tanjung Batu where several of the intruders are still believed to be
lurking.
"Sweeping and mopping
up operations are still continuing in Tanjung Batu and after we have cleared
the area, we will move to nearby villages such as Tanjung Labian, Kampung
Tanagian and Sungai Bilis," he told reporters at the media centre in Felda
Residence Sahabat, yesterday.
Hamza added that a meeting
would be held soon with the National Security Council, district office and
community leaders to discuss the
relocation of displaced villagers.
Although Kampung Tanduo had
been declared free of the intruders, he said the villagers from that coastal
village would be placed in another area nearby.
"All villagers would be
relocated to a suitable location with the help of Felda and this will also
include those from Tanjung Batu,” he said.
Meanwhile, Hamza said the boy
who was injured during the shootout in Tanjung Batu on Sunday, was in a stable
condition at the intensive care unit of the Duchess of Kent Hospital in
Sandakan.
On Sunday, a soldier was
injured in the shootout with two armed men in Tanjung Batu where security
forces were sweeping the no-entry zone for intruders.
Security forces discovered
the injured boy and the bodies of a man, a woman and two children - a girl and
a boy - in a house at the coastal village where the shootout occurred. Police
believed that the victims were foreigners. (NST)
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