Esscom still identifying dead trio
Published on: Friday, March 02, 2018
Lahad Datu: The police are still in the midst of identifying the three men who were killed in a shootout with the force at a plantation area in Batu 2, Jalan Kalabakan-Keningau, near Tawau, last Wednesday.Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) Commander DCP Datuk Hazani Ghazali said the police had sent the fingerprints and photographs of the trio to Interpol and sought assistance from their counterparts in neighbouring countries for verification."We do not know whether the suspects were from Daesh, Abu Sayyaf or any other (militant) group," he said when contacted here Thursday.
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Hazani was commenting on Thursday's news report in a local daily headlined "Abu Sayyaf leader shot dead in Tawau."He said the article was based on unspecified intelligence sources, adding that he could not confirm the report.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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