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Perak cops investigate report of man running amok on highway

Police trace suspect who stopped car, went rampage while clutching gold chain

Updated 4 years ago · Published on 13 Jun 2022 12:03AM

Perak cops investigate report of man running amok on highway
Perak police chief Datuk Mior Faridalathrash Wahid said they received a report from the driver of the vehicle who was at the scene at about 7.12pm today.

IPOH – Police are investigating an incident where a man ran amok after stopping a car in the right lane of KM253 of the southbound direction of the North-South Expressway in Kuala Kangsar this evening.

Perak police chief Datuk Mior Faridalathrash Wahid said they received a report from the driver of the vehicle who was at the scene at about 7.12pm today.

“The police report was lodged by the man in Ipoh but the probe was carried out by the Criminal Investigation Department and the Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department of the Kuala Kangsar district police headquarters.

“The suspect and all witnesses will be traced to assist in the investigation,” he said when contacted by Bernama here today.

Earlier, a picture of a man standing in the right lane of the highway that was uploaded on social media went viral along with claims that the suspect had stopped his car and got down and went on a rampage clutching a gold chain and climbing onto a nearby car and kicking it. – Bernama, June 12, 2022

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