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| Robbers had time for last meal | |
| 2009-05-14 | |
[Straits Times] FOUR of the five robbers shot dead minutes after a robbery had time to raid their victim's kitchen and enjoy the food there. During the one-hour robbery, the men took turns to feast on chicken rice, chocolate cake and ice cream at the home of Syahrin Md Jamaludin, Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's political secretary. The incident occurred around 2am in Kampung Sinaran Baru, Skudai, on Wednesday.
Ms Huzaimah, an assistant registrar at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, said she was even made to teach the robbers how to use the remote control for the two cars at her home. 'I'm grateful my three children, who were sleeping, and I were not harmed during the robbery. I even asked the robbers not to make noise as I was worried about them waking up my children,' she said. After ransacking the house, the robbers, including the fifth man who was believed to have waited outside the house, fled in one of the cars stolen from Syahrin's house, a Proton Waja, around 3.10am. Mr Syahrin, 33, who was in Putrajaya, rushed back to Johor Baru after learning of the incident and praised police for their swift action. He added that his house was broken into two years ago as well. Johor police chief Dept Comm Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said police spotted the five suspects around 3.45am in the victim's car on a slip road in Kempas leading to the Pasir Gudang highway. DCP Mohd Mokhtar said despite police ordering the suspects to stop, they rammed the back of a police vehicle and attempted to run away on foot. Suddenly, they turned back to attack the police with a gun and parangs, and police were forced to open fire to defend themselves, he said, adding that all five suspects, in their 20s, died at the scene. The suspects also had no valid travel documents. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I'm sure that when the "fight" started, the parangs were in the trunk of one of the police cars. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-05-14 16:26 |
| #3 "Parangs"? Dammit ,don't bring a knife to a gunfight. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-05-14 14:45 |
| #2 had time to raid their victim's kitchen and enjoy the food there Incorrect. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-05-14 09:17 |
| #1 5 bad guys, 5 KIA, no IDs. That's how you do a crossfire, gentlemen. Watch and learn. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-05-14 00:53 |