A 35-YEAR-OLD man who tried to snatch a submachine gun from a sentry at a police station in Penang was drunk, according to Penang police chief Datuk Hamzah Ahmad.
He said the man told the sentry at the Dato Keramat police station to open the door to the police station compound while uttering profanities.
“The police personnel gave him a warning and advised him to leave the place, but the suspect moved towards him and tried to snatch the machine gun HK MP5 from him,” said Hamzah in a statement today.
However, Hamzah said police personnel managed to ward him off.
“The suspect later took a helmet and tried to attack the policeman and was hurt in the scuffle when he was being apprehended,” he said in the statement.
Hamzah noted that the suspect had two criminal and drug-related offences on his record and a four-day remand order had been obtained by police.
The incident comes after the deadly attack at the Ulu Tiram police station in Johor last Friday.
At 2.45am on Friday, constables Ahmad Azza Fahmi Azhar, 22, and Muhamad Syafiq Ahmad Said, 24, were killed after they were assailed by a man wielding a machete. Corporal Mohd Hasif Roslan, 38, was shot.
Following the attack, police arrested five family members of the suspect, aged 19 to 62, along with two other people, all of whom were remanded for a week to assist in the investigation under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder. – May 19, 2024.
