THE Magistrate’s Court in Johor Baru today issued a remand order for six individuals to facilitate investigation into the murder case at a petrol station in Taman Pelangi here last Sunday.

Magistrate Noor Aisyah Ahmad allowed the police to remand the five men, in their 20s, and a woman, aged 19, for seven days, starting today.

Johor police chief Mohd Khalil Kader Mohd yesterday said in a statement that a man and a woman were arrested at 2.30am to assist in the investigation.

It is understood that the four other men linked to the case were arrested early today.

In the 7.30pm incident last Sunday, the 44-year-old victim was stabbed by four men who drove up in a white BMW. They also knocked down the victim and ran him twice.

The victim had stopped at the petrol station with a woman, said to be his Vietnamese wife, to inflate his car tyres when he was set upon.

Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who is also home minister, was quoted as saying that the victim was a secret society leader and the attack was part of an ongoing dispute between two secret society gangs. – Bernama, December 21, 2017.