KUANTAN – A logging worker is believed to have run amok and set a Proton Waja police patrol car ablaze in Kg Selengkong Nenasi, Pekan yesterday.
Pekan district police chief Mohd Zaidi Mat Zin said the incident occurred at about 11pm and that police received information from the timber yard supervisor that an Indonesian man, in his 30s, was running amok there.
He said three police personnel were dispatched to the area in a patrol car and found the suspect alone at the scene.
“While carrying out inspection, the suspect became aggressive and attacked the police personnel, injuring two of them. The suspect then entered the shared housing and returned with a flaming object which he threw into the police vehicle.
“A policeman still inside the car immediately got out to save himself while the suspect fled into the nearby forest,” he said when contacted today.
Zaidi later said that the man, in his 30s, was arrested by a Pekan police team near the incident location at 4.20pm.
He said police also seized a hammer and a piece of wood from the suspect.
“The suspect would be brought to the magistrates’ court tomorrow for remand application and the case is investigated under Section 436 of the Penal Code,” he said in a statement today.
Meanwhile, Pahang Fire and Rescue Department assistant director of operations Ismail Abdul Ghani said seven personnel, including from the Nenasi Fire and Rescue Station, were deployed to the location in a fire engine, adding that the police patrol car was destroyed. – Bernama, April 24, 2022
