ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Mar. 28, 2013) – Malaysian security forces shot dead a member of the Sultanate of Sulu and captured 6 others following an operation on Thursday in Sabah’s Lahad Datu town.
The slain Filipino was not immediately identified, but Malaysian authorities said he attacked one of the police commandos with a machete and was shot dead in Kampung Simunul at around 9 a.m. during a house-to-house search. The commando was unhurt in the attack.
Police said those arrested were four men and two women and are being investigated by authorities.
More than 300 people have been arrested by Malaysian authorities on suspicion they were either supporting or aiding the group of Raja Muda Agbimuddin Kiram who intruded in Sabah in February.
Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram sent his brother Raja Muda Agbimuddin and about 200 armed followers to exert their historical claims over the oil-rich state which now forms part of Malaysia. But fighting erupted between Malaysian forces and the intruders following a deadly standoff.
Malaysia said more than 60 of the sultan’s men and ten of its own were killed in the clashes. (Mindanao Examiner)
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