SG BULOH – Four men believed to have been involved in a robbery at a house in Rawang near here today were shot dead by police while trying to escape.
Selangor acting police head Datuk Arjunaidi Mohamed said in the 1pm incident, a police team responding to the robbery had spotted a suspicious-looking car and began tailing it to a road near Sg Buloh Hospital.
The police ordered them to stop their car but they refused and sped off towards Jalan Kuala Selangor.
“The policemen gave a chase and, as they caught up, the suspects' car rammed into a female GrabFood rider and dragged her for a few metres.
"After running into the rider, the car could not go forward. The driver tried to ram the rider again, prompting the police to fire several shots at the suspects' car to save the victim," he told reporters at the scene.
Arjunaidi said one of the suspects then alighted from the car armed with a machete, and the police had to fire more shots, killing all the suspects at the scene.
Checks revealed that all the suspects, in their 20s, were members of a masked robbery gang that the police had been looking for.
"We believe all the suspects had been involved in more than 50 robberies in Selangor since the beginning of this year, and two of them had criminal records.
"Inside the car, police found several machetes, jewellery, cash, some helmets and black clothes, believed to be used by the suspects to carry out robberies," he said, adding the case is being investigated under Section 307 of the Penal Code.
On the condition of the GrabFood rider, Arjunaidi said the victim suffered injuries to several parts of the body and was taken to Sg Buloh Hospital for treatment. – Bernama, December 25, 2020
