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theSun | THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6 2008

PETALING JAYA: Two sus-pected Indonesian hired killersin their 30s were shot dead bypolice in a gunfight at an iso-lated area at Km20 KampungTengah, Puchong yesterday.

Selangor police chief DCPDatuk Khalid Abu Bakar saida police team from the Selan-gor serious crimes division had

received information that thesuspects were in the area andwent to look for them.

He said the team wasscouring the place for the menwhen they spotted them ridinga motorcycle next to the river.He said police ordered the men

to surrender but one of themwhipped out a pistol andopened fire at the police teamwhile his accomplice chargedtowards the detectives with aparang. Both men were thengunned down by police.

Khalid said the suspects,whose identities have yet tobe acertained as they did not

have any identity documentson them and went by severalnicknames, are behind the kill-ing of an Indonesian man onAug 21 at Batu Belah, Klang.

He said while scouring thearea where the men were killed,police found a t-shirt, a spent

bullet shell and a bloodstainedtorchlight by the riverbank.There were also marks on theground indicating a body hadbeen dragged over a distance.

He said investigators believethe suspects could have killedsomeone there hours earlierand disposed of the body inthe river.

Khalid said to verify theirsuspicions, police are search-ing the river for the body whichmay have been swept away.

He urged those with missingfamily members to contact theSelangor police hotline at 03-2052 2222.

Two hired killers gunned down

Woman robber,

accomplice killed

by Charles Ramendrannewsdesk@thesundaily.com

KAJANG: A 22-year-old female robberwho made the news after she was ar-rested in Ampang in May this year wasgunned down along with an accompliceby a crack police team in Bandar SungaiLong, Kajang yesterday.

A chief inspector, who led the am-bush, was seriously injured when he wasshot by one of the suspects in the 3amincident which led to a two-hour standoffbetween the police and suspects.

Federal CID director CommissionerDatuk Mohd Bakri Zinin said a week agopolice had arrested a 30-year-old manwho is a member of the car hijackinggang, and based on the informationthey had gathered, the raiding teamfrom the Kuala Lumpur serious crimesdivision went to the Green Acre Parkcondominium to look for the womanand another man.

It is learnt that the team forced itsway into the first-floor unit after thesuspects refused to open the door.

Mohd Bakri said as the personnelsearched the house, Chief Insp Ang WaeiLeong entered the master bedroom.One of the suspects, who was in theroom, opened fire at Ang who suffered

gunshot wounds on his legs.He said Angs team members man-aged to drag him to safety.

Mohd Bakri said police urged thesuspects to give themselves up, butone of them fired several shots fromthe apartment balcony at a group ofpoliceman downstairs.

The drama came to an end at about

COP SHOT AND INJURED BY SUSPECTS IN RAID

5am when the team barged into theapartment again and gunned down thewoman and her male accomplice.

He said the suspects have beenidentified as Wong Sau Lai, 22, and heraccomplice Goh Kiam Chai @ Ah Tok, 28,but police are checking if their identitycards are genuine.

Mohd Bakri said the gang of three rob-bers had been active for about a year andis behind at least 32 cases of car-jackingof luxury vehicles especially BMWs worthmore than RM3 million. He said Goh hadeight previous convictions for variouscrimes while the woman had a pending

court case and had jumped bail.Police recovered fake numberplates, knives, parangs, two handgunsand several bullets among the items inthe house. A BMW reported stolen inCheras about a month ago was foundparked at the condominium.

On May 27, the woman, who wasalready on police bail involving a gang

robbery, was arrested in Taman Muda,Ampang after she was seen transfer-ring boxes from one car to another. Shetried to escape when police arrived andrammed her car into a patrol car. Shewas, however, overpowered by thepolicemen. The BMW she was drivingand a parked Toyota Altis at the scenewere both reported stolen.

She was later released on bail.Police learnt that the woman tar-

geted luxury cars and preyed on hervictims on the pretext of asking fordirections or impersonating a direct-selling saleswoman.

On gaining entry into the house ofthe unsuspecting victims, her two maleaccomplices would rush in and rob thevictim of their luxury vehicles.

At noon yesterday, Inspector-Generalof Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan visitedAng (pix) who is warded at the HospitalUniversiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Ang isreported to be in stable condition.

KUALA LUMPUR: A Tamilnewspaper photographer wasdetained by police late Tuesdayover a bomb hoax during theUmno supreme council meet-ing in the Putra World TradeCentre (PWTC) on Friday.

The man, who is in his early40s, was picked up in his housein Taman Sri Sentosa, off OldKlang Road, by a police team.

Yesterday, he was remandedfor three days to facilitate in-vestigations. It is believed thathe was traced from the phonenumber the PWTC managementhad received from a caller whotold them there was a bomb inthe building at about 4pm.

Dang Wangi OCPD ACPMohd Dzulkarnain Ibrahim, whoconfirmed the man is in police

custody, said investigators areprobing to identify the culpritbehind the bomb hoax.

The police bomb disposalunit was summoned and theyfound a plastic bag which con-tained non-explosive items in it.The supreme council meetingwas undisrupted throughoutthe time the police went towork to clear the plastic bag.

Press pixman held over bomb hoax

KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy PrimeMinister Datuk Seri Najib TunRazak said yesterday the opposi-tions claim that the governmentwas spending a huge amount ofmoney in the purchase of Eu-rocopter helicopters has been

proven wrong.He said the Public Accounts

Committee (PAC) had declaredthat it found no irregularities inthe purchase of 12 units of theaircraft worth RM1.604 billion.

Najib, who is finance minis-ter, said the government had asystematic way of dealing withprocurement matters and wouldensure that the system and pro-cedures were followed.

The allegation is baseless andhas been proven wrong. That iswhy we opened the process forscrutiny by the PAC although it isnot proper to expose the matterto too many parties because itinvolves the armed forces.

However, since the opposi-tion has been making a big issueout of the deal, we let the PACinvestigate, he told reportersafter appearing in a specialinterview with Radio Televi-sion Malaysia on the stimuluspackage in the 2009 Budget atAngkasapuri, here.

PAC chairman Datuk SeriAzmi Khalid said on Monday thatbased on the committees two-

week scrutiny on the technicaland financial aspects of the deal,it found that the process hadbeen carried out in accordancewith internationally acceptedprocurement practices.

Azmi said the PAC only had

issues with the fact that nophysical evaluations were madeon the helicopters.

The Defence Ministry, how-ever, had explained that it did notcarry out any test flights as thehelicopters were already beingused in several countries, Azmiadded.

The PAC consists of 14 mem-bers including five oppositionMPs. Bernama

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Najib: Claims of huge spending onEurocopter deal proven wrong

by Karen Arukesamynewsdesk@thesundaily.com

PETALING JAYA: The governments RM50million allocation each for government-fundedreligious schools, mission schools, Chinesevernacular and Tamil vernacular schools underthe governments stimulus package may notbe sufficient to meet their full expenses thoughit is seen as a good start.

The RM50 million allocated for each of thefour categories will be a good additional sumto improve the school infrastructure as theseschools have not received sufficient alloca-tions in the past, said MCA central committeemember Datuk Lee Sing Chooi.

However, he said, some of the schools willneed much more funds than the allocation due totheir condition, size and geographic location.

We urge the government to seriously lookinto requirements of all streams in terms ofschool maintenance and basic facilities.

Due to the different number of schools andstudents in each stream, the government shouldlook into allocating the funds based on enrolment,

current state and condition of the schools.There are about 132 government-funded

religious schools, some 200 mission schools,1,290 Chinese vernacular schools and 523Tamil schools nationwide.

La Salle Schools education secretaryBrother Ambrose Loke said: This is good newsfor mission schools since they have not beengetting much funds from the government.

He said mission schools all this while havehad to look for financial assistance from formerstudents and well-wishers.

MIC party secretary-general Datuk Dr S.Subramaniam was reported to have said the al-location was testimony that the government didnot forsake the Indian community and wantedto improve the infrastructure of Tamil schools.

MCA Wanita chief Datin Paduka Chew MeiFun welcomed the suggestion that the govern-

ment may consider carrying out an open tenderpolicy whereby private and government-linkedcompanies may bid for government projects.

We need to be more open-minded in facingthis era of globalisation where competitivenessis embraced above any protectionist policy.

RM50m for schools a good start