March 03, 2013
Special troops force guard a area about 3km divided from a location where armed organisation have been holding off, outsideLahad Datu February 19, 2013. Reuters file picKUALA LUMPUR, Mar 3 A law enforcemetn officer was killed as well as an additional harmed in a shootout with armed militants in Kampung Selamat, Semporna, last night after troops pronounced dual others were wounded in a gunfight in circuitously Pulau Simunul, 3 weeks after Filipino militants done an incursion in to Sabah.
These incidents around Semporna have been 150km divided from Lahad Datu where there is still a tense standoff in between Malaysian confidence forces as well as Filipino militants a day after 14 people were killed in a shootout.
State headlines organisation Bernama reported that a Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Ismail Omar, confirmed a situation though refused to comment further.
The headlines organisation pronounced a firefight began during 8pm, adding a Lahad Datu as well as Tawau Police Special Investigation Divisions have been deployed to a scene.
On Friday, dual troops commandos were killed, while 3 others were harmed in a shootout with a armed intruders in Kampung Tandou in Lahad Datu.
Twelve of a armed intruders were additionally killed in a gunfight.
Sabah troops chief Datuk Hamzah Taib pronounced a organisation of 40 law enforcemetn officer had gone to a island in search of several people after receiving reports that they hexed firearms.
The policemen entered a village as well as were upon foot upon a stilt boardwalk when they were dismissed upon as well as dual of a organisation were injured, Hamzah pronounced as fear gripped people in Semporna as well as Tawau that a organisation of gunmen had pounded confidence forces.
Hamzah pronounced that follow-up operations have been ongoing though no arrest! s have b een made.
For now, you hold it is unrelated to a situation in Lahad Datu, he said.
He denied that any troops hire had been attacked, after rumours of a gunfight spread by word of mouth as well as went viral upon amicable network sites.
A troops officer during a Semporna district domicile told The Malaysian Insider a officer in charge was in a assembly with a troops as well as declined to disclose further information.
In a PDRM amicable website, Ismail confirmed a sharpened situation in Kampung Sri Jaya Siminul, Semporna.
He pronounced a situation followed a troops investigation in a area.
Police, however, have nonetheless to discern a actual series of those involved in a incident. It is believed that a series is not more than 10, he said.
A Filipino Muslim house claiming stately origin from a Sulu sultanate had intruded in to Sabah upon February 9 staking tenure over parts of a Borneo state.
The armed organisation series a little 200 people as well as insist they will not obey their explain to a land, notwithstanding entreaties from a Philippine President Benigno Aquino III.
Putrajaya, that had earlier attempted to negotiate a pacific fortitude with a gunmen, have warned they will not demur to make use of assault opposite a organisation to get them to leave Sabah.
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