: Police seeking Indonesian counterpart help in murder case

TAWAU, The Royal Malaysian Police is currently seeking the assistance of their Indonesian counterpart in the effort to trace a suspect involved in the murder of a Malaysian at Dukawan estate yesterday.

District police chief ACP Jaafar Mohd. Yussof said that the suspect known as Lias Darise aged 40 was believed to have crossed the border after committing the murder of the late Mansor Ambo, 44, at a kongsi located in the estate at Wallace Bay, Sebatik island.

`Based on eyewitnesses report, the suspect had fled toward the border some 300 meters from the crime scene where he slashed the victim with a curved knife used in cock fighting which is shaped like a sickle’, he explained.

He added the victim who worked as a captain of a palm oil ferry came to the kongsi and met the suspect where an argument took place over matter pertaining to the wife of the suspect and the attack took place soon after which took place around 8.00 am.

`When we got there, the victim was covered in blood with sixteen slashed wounds at the front and back’, he cited.

In another case, police arrested two suspects and recovered all the items believed stolen from a house at Scenery housing estate at Kuhara road after the houseowner, a 22 year old Malay lady made the report citing that she had identified the car used in the break-in. Jaafar said that the victim’s house was broken into yesterday and her information led to the detection of the Kancil vehicle at a market at Sin Onn around 4.30pm on the same day.

He said police laid out an ambush and managed to detain two men aged 27 and 22 and recovered the items stolen from the house which comprised of five handphones and MP4 worth around RM5,000. The case is being investigated under Section 457.