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Man kills 2 police officers in Malaysia in suspected terror attack

Incident happened at a police station in the Southeast Asian country.

Man kills 2 police officers in Malaysia in suspected terror attack
Notícias ao Minuto

12:57 - 17/05/24 por Notícias ao Minuto

Mundo Malásia

A man walked into a police station and killed two officers in the southern Malaysian state of Johor early Friday.
Wearing a face mask and armed with a knife concealed in a padded briefcase, the man arrived at the station on a motorcycle and stabbed one of the officers to death. He then fatally shot a second officer with the dead officer’s gun.

Authorities shot and killed the suspected attacker, but not before the man also managed to wound another police officer.

The incident is being investigated as a terrorist attack linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah militant group, the Associated Press reported.

Materials linked to Jemaah Islamiyah were later found at the suspect’s home. Five members of his family were detained for questioning as suspected members of the group, said national police chief Abdul Hamid Bador.

The country’s top police officer also said the attack appeared to have been planned, possibly in an attempt to steal weapons from the police station.

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