The incident occurred in the southern state of Johor in the early hours of Friday morning.
Two police officers were killed and one injured in Malaysia after a man suspected of being part of the radical group Jemaah Islamiyah broke into a police station.
The attack occurred in the early hours of Friday morning in the town of Ulu Tiram in the southern state of Johor, while police on duty were dealing with a couple who had said they wanted to give a statement about an incident two years ago, said inspector Police General Razarudin Husain was quoted in the New Straits Times newspaper.
While the group was talking, the suspect arrived at the back of the police station on a motorcycle, armed with a machete.
When a police officer confronted the man, he attacked with the machete, grabbing the officer’s service revolver to kill the second officer.
Razarudin said investigators suspect the man, who was shot to death by a third police officer wounded after being struck by the machete, planned to seize weapons for a “yet-to-be-determined agenda.”
Razaurdin told Malaysian media that police raided the suspect’s house, not far from the police station, and found “numerous JI-related paraphernalia”. Five of his family members were arrested, including the suspect’s 62-year-old father, who police said was a “known JI member.” The two people who filed the police report were also arrested.
Other JI members who lived in the state, which borders Singapore, were also arrested, Razarudin said, according to media outlet Malay Mail.
Jemaah Islamiyah is an al-Qaeda-affiliated group that sought to establish a hard-line Islamic state in Indonesia and throughout Southeast Asia.
At its height in the 2000s, JI had members from Indonesia to Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia and the Philippines, and planned a series of deadly bombings, including the October 2002 attack in Bali, which killed more than 200 people. .
Some of its most prominent leaders were Malaysians, including Noordin Muhammad Top, who served as the group’s recruiter, strategist and financier and was wanted for involvement in a series of attacks in Indonesia.
Noordin was from Johor and is said to have founded a religious school in Ulu Tiram.
IF is banned in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
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