5 'foreign' robbers shot dead

Maximum sympathy should be given to the police in keeping our place safe and secure. What else would the policemen do, when someone refused to stop for police search. To make the matter worse, they sped off and shot first. Thats what a typical politician fails to understand. Politicians can get off with irrational verbal spree but police do have pistols by their hips.

Now that police reports are pouring in madness, as politicians are playing partisian ploys, police hands are full and tight. So they do need some sympathy from us.

Foreign robbers shot dead
KUALA LUMPUR
March 7, 2009

FIVE men believed to be Vietnamese were killed in a shoot-out on Saturday in the northern Philippines after they staged an armed robbery, police said.

Wira Ayub Yaakob, Penang state police chief said the shooting happened when the five, along with three other suspects, were making their escape in two cars after robbing 11 Vietnamese factory workers.

The suspected robbers opened fire after police stopped their getaway car, Mr Wira Ayub said, hitting the rear windscreen of the police patrol car.

'The policemen, in defence, fired several shots at the car and killed the five men in it,' he was quoted as saying by the Bernama news agency.

'A pistol, a live bullet, two ski masks, 11 machetes, a metal cutter and a crow bar were found in the car,' he added.

The police chief said officers had in recent weeks launched a crackdown in the area on foreign criminals, especially Vietnamese, who might have lost their jobs due to the global economic downturn. Mr Wira Ayub said police have launched a manhunt for the remaining robbers. -- AFP

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ROBBERY WITH MALAYSIAKINI: it knows no mercy in Buntong

Nobody will say being a robber is a vocation or a job. Not the way he/she wants kids to know or put in various forms kids has to fill up. With malaysiakini, lets share what is robbery in light of mercy. At some other times, we may have to prob deeper why they end up robbing people. A disease? A social disease? A sign of poor social fabrics? A sign of poor distribution of wealth?

A politician was slashed
and killed during a robbery
in his house early yesterday
when he rushed to his wife's aid.
Robbers slash politician to death
New Straits Times


Police believed the case was not politically motivated. Ipoh Barat MIC division treasurer, N. Sidambaram, 64, was attacked by six armed robbers who had broken into his house in Jalan Wayang, Buntong at about 1am.

While Sidambaram lay injured on the floor, the robbers helped themselves to drinks, ransacked the house and even scolded him for having flimsy windows in the house, before driving away in his car.

Despite suffering slash wounds to his head and arms, the MIC veteran politician crawled to the room where his wife was locked up and untied her before succumbing to his injuries.

Ipoh police chief Assistant Commissioner Azisman Alias said the burglars escaped with an undisclosed amount of jewellery, a mobile phone and a Proton Waja. No arrests have been made yet.
The robbers, said to be in their 20s, were believed to have entered the house after forcing open a window.

They entered the room where Sidambaram's wife was asleep. They bound her hands and legs and blindfolded her, before grabbing her 'thali' chain.

When they left the room, the woman started to scream and on hearing the commotion, Sidambaram, who was in another room, rushed to his wife's aid but was slashed several times by the robbers.

Sidambaram's son-in-law, K. Umaparan, 33, from Segambut, Kuala Lumpur, who rushed to Ipoh on hearing about the incident, said his father-in-law as a man of principles and a respected politician.

He said the deceased had three children who lived elsewhere. Only Sidam-baram and his wife lived in the house in Jalan Wayang.

Sidambaram, who held the post of division treasurer for 16 years, was also the president of the Ipoh Hindu Dewasthana Paripalana Sabah, an organisation which looked after two of the biggest temples in the city.



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