Mayhem in KL

Muzliza Mustafa Muzliza Mustafa Updated 9 years ago · Published on 11 May 2017 3:40PM · 4 Comments

Police have their hands full with brawls to stop and robbers to catch the day after Wesak. - The Malaysian Insight pic, – May 11, 2017.

FOUR robbers were shot dead, 31 were arrested in shootouts and bar brawls across Kuala Lumpur, hours after a public holiday on Lord Buddha’s birthday. 

The first incident broke out in Kuala Lumpur’s largest entertainment hub, TREC where 40 people were involved in a fight following a shoving match earlier in a pub. 

Ten pub patrons – five from the United Kingdom, two from Ireland and three Malaysians – were arrested. Two of them suffered serious injuries and have been warded at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital while the others received outpatient treatment.

Almost at the same time in Bangsar, some 13km away, at least 30 people were involved in another scuffle.

Police rounded up 21 people, four of them women, after the fight in Jalan Telawi.

And this afternoon, police gunned down four robbers after a chase which ended in Taman Sri Rampai, Setapak.

The crime wave started with a ripple at 2am today at Arte Bar on Jalan Tun Razak, when a minor misunderstanding between a local and a Briton escalated into a brawl of 40 people from outside the pub.

Two onlookers – a businessman and his bodyguard – fired shots in the air in an attempt to stop the fighting, but the brawlers only stopped when police arrived at the scene.
 
Police arrested 10 suspects, between the ages of 17 and 32, and also seized the pistols of the businessman and his bodyguard. Both are said to be licensed gunowners.

Kuala Lumpur police chief Amar Singh said the 10 are being investigated for rioting while the businessman and his bodyguard are being investigated under the Firearms Act 1960.

About 3.30m in Bangsar, police moved in on about 30 people fighting in front of a banana leaf rice restaurant.

The New Straits Times reported a car reversed into the police party, almost mowing them down.

The car then sped towards Jalan Ara and almost rammed into another police patrol car. Policemen fired a shot at the car, hitting 
the front fender. The driver fled and abandoned the car in front of Maybank in Bangsar Baru. 

Brickfields district police chief Sharul Othman Mansor told the NST police found three motorcycle helmets, a metre-long rod, a knife, a baton and a bloodstained jacket inside the car.

Police also seized two cars, a Toyota Vellfire and Perodua Myvi.

One of the men arrested and who sustained injuries in the brawl was sent to the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre.

Meanwhile, about noon, police shot dead four men after they had committed a robbery.

Police seized an undisclosed amount of money in the Honda Civic used by the robbers, Berita Harian reported. – May 11, 2017.
 

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  • The rakyat want to know: Were these 'real' incidents or 'manufactured' ones? Who benefits from these 'crimes'?

    Posted 9 years ago by Anak Kampung · Reply

  • Hope the media and witnesses can tell us what really happened, whether any agent provocateurs were used, whom they were 'used' by etc. Only the truth will set us free.

    Posted 9 years ago by Anak Kampung · Reply

  • What has the mayhem got to do with having to mention Wesak and Lord Buddha's birthday? TMI could simply write after a public holiday. There is always an innuendo with words.... especially in a nation highly stoked about religiosity. And no, I am not a Buddhist or related to one or married to one. I am just a Malaysian who thinks the media need not hype even inadvertently. There was mayhem. If it was by Buddhists during a procession, I can understand it. Otherwise?

    Posted 9 years ago by Dr. Patricia Martinez · Reply

  • What motivates Malaysian Insight to associate a peaceful Buddhist festival, with completely unconnected violence and killing on the streets of Kuala Lumpur? Why does Malaysia Insight use an image depicting people praying in a Buddhist temple to promote this article on its Facebook page when this is irrelevant to the content of the article? Is Malaysia Insight trying to associate Buddhism with the violence described? And if so, why?

    Posted 9 years ago by Marc de faoite · Reply