Malaysia

Police identify 20 Jemaah Islamiyah members in Johor

Special Branch ordered to hunt them down.

Updated 2 years ago · Published on 17 May 2024 1:31PM

Police identify 20 Jemaah Islamiyah members in Johor
A man armed with a gun and machete has killed two policeman at the Ulu Tiram police station in Johor. The suspect is believed to have been a member of Jemaah Islamiyah. – Pic courtesy of reader, May 17, 2024.

by Alfian Z.M. Tahir

POLICE have identified at least 20 people in Johor with connections to Jemaah Islamiyah, Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain said.

Razarudin said he had instructed the Special Branch to find them at once following a deadly attack on the Ulu Tiram police station.

"We have identified 20 of them and I have instructed the Special Branch to locate them," he said.

Razarudin said the father of the shooter, who was 24-year, is also a member of the terror group. Police have detained five family members of the suspect.

Two officers were killed and a third was injured by a masked assailant armed with a gun and machete in the Johor police station. The suspect was shot dead.

Police said the suspect is believed to have been a member of Jemaah Islamiyah.

Jemaah Islamiyah is a militant group based in Indonesia, which is dedicated to the establishment of an Islamic state in Southeast Asia. It was founded by Muslim preacher Abu Bakar Bashir in the early 1990s. – May 17, 2024.

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