Twenty bodies of gunmen recovered after large-scale operations in Sabah: Sources
Tuesday, 05 March 2013 Super Admin
Ambulances drive towards an area where the stand-off with Filipino Sulu gunmen and Malaysian security forces was taking place in Tanduo village on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Twenty bodies of the Sulu gunmen have been recovered in a remote coastal village in Sabah after large-scale operations by the Malaysian security forces on Tuesday to flush out the militants holed up there for weeks, according to local media. -- PHOTO: AFP
(ST) - Twenty bodies of the Sulu gunmen have been recovered in a remote coastal village in Sabah after large-scale operations by the Malaysian security forces on Tuesday to flush out the militants holed up there for weeks, according to local media.
News portal Malaysiakini and Utusan Malaysia daily both quoted sources as saying that the bodies were found during the army's mop-up operations after the airstrike and mortar strike Tuesday morning.
The authorities have yet to confirm it. Police chief Ismail Omar said at a press briefing in the afternoon that the house-to-house checks were still going on, and it was not known if some of the gunmen had fled to other villages.
"The movement of the operations is being done with great caution, taking the terrain into account," he said.
There have been conflicting reporters on whether the leader Raja Muda Azzumudie is among the dead.
The New Straits Times also reported that fresh rounds of explosions have been heard around Kampung Sinakut, which is about 6km from Kampung Tanduo where fighting took place Tuesday morning.
Malaysia had sent seven army battalions to eastern Sabah to flush out the militants after a gunfight over the weekend killed at least 26 people, including eight Malaysian policemen.
The battle came after a long stand-off with the group of over 100 armed Filipinos who had landed in Sabah on Feb 9, to "reclaim" their ancestral land as followers of an heir to the Sulu Sultanate of southern Philippines. Sulu had controlled parts of Sabah hundreds of years ago.
Malaysian forces began moving in last week after failing to persuade them to leave.
source : Malaysia Today
Setakat ini 20 orang pengganas Sulu telah terbunuh dalam serangan besar-besaran oleh pasukan keselamatan negara dan mayatnya telah ditemui di sekitar Kg Tanduo, Lahad Datu.
Ini bermakna sehingga kini 38 pengganas Sulu berjaya dibunuh termasuk 12 orang yang berjaya ditembak mati semasa pertempuran pertama di Lahad Datu dan 6 orang lagi ditembak mati ketika pertempuran kedua di Kpg Sri Jaya, Simunul, Sampoerna.
Menurut laporan oleh Utusan Online juga, pihak keselamatan masih meneruskan usaha-usaha penggeledahan bagi mencari saki baki pengganas yang masih hidup atau yang telah terbunuh.
Sementara itu Ketua Polis Negara memberitahu setakat ini mayat ketua kumpulan pengganas Sulu, Azzumudie Kiram, adik kepada Jamalul Kiram III belum lagi ditemui.
Di pihak pasukan keselamatan negara, Alhamdulillah tiada kecederaan atau kematian dilaporkan, InsyaAllah semoga ianya berkekalan.
Sementara kita semua rakyat Malaysia menantikan laporan-laporan mutakhir mengenai situasi semasa di Lahad Datu, eloklah teruskan memanjatkan doa ke hadrat Illahi, mudah-mudahan segalanya berjalan lancar dan insiden di Lahad Datu ini akan tamat jua akhirnya.
Admin : Janji Kerajaan Malaysia kepada rakyat bahawa untuk memastikan kedaulatan negara terpelihara dan selamat telah ditepati setakat ini. Ops Sulu - Daulat masih diteruskan bagi menahan dan mencari saki baki pengganas Tentera Diraja Sulu yang masih hidup mahupun telah mati. Pihak Keselamatan Tentera dan Polis setakat ini tiada kecederaan atau kematian. Operasi yang dimulakan pada 7.00 pagi (5/3/2013) .dengan ketumbukan Tentera dan Polis dengan kekuatan TUDM dengan 3 unit Jet Pejuang F18 dan 5 unit Skyhawk serta peralatan lain telah mengebom dan menyerang kawasan dengan radius 4KM Persegi di Kg. Tandou, FELDA Sahabat di Lahad Datu bagi menghapuskan kumpulan pengganas yang masih terdapat di kawasan tersebut. Pihak ATM dan PDRM juga menyatakan kejayaan setakat ini telah menampakkan hasil yang memberansangkan dengan semangat perjuangan dan moral yang tinggi di janakan oleh sokongan padu rakyat ke atas gerakan dan operasi menghapuskan Penganas pengganas tersebut.
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