DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Dec. 15, 2012) – Philippine police shot dead a Malaysian member of the Jemaah Islamiya after he threatened to blow up an improvised explosive while being arrested in the southern city of Davao.
Police said government agents were trying to accost Mohammad Noor Fikrie Bin Abd Kahar and his Filipina wife, Anabel Lee, in Sampaguita hotel where they checked Friday night in when the Malaysian pulled out a cell phone and threatened to detonate a bomb they were carrying in a bag.
The duo then ran to a park nearby and police commandos surrounded the place until a sniper shot the foreigner. The woman was arrested and is being interrogated by authorities, according to the local police chief Ronald dela Rosa.
Police recovered a 60mm mortar bomb from the bag of the foreigner.
Little was known about the foreigner and his motive and the local military officials would not talk to journalists and did not give any statement about the operation. (Mindanao Examiner)
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