{"id":4335,"date":"2013-03-03T12:05:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T04:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2013-03-04T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T04:21:14","slug":"six-malaysian-policemen-six-armed-intruders-killed-in-semporna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/six-malaysian-policemen-six-armed-intruders-killed-in-semporna\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Malaysian policemen, six armed intruders killed in Semporna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/black1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4345\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\" title=\"black\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/black1-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/black1-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/black1-1024x793.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/black1-225x175.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/black1.jpg 1278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>LAHAD DATU, March 3: Another policeman was killed in the ambush by a group of armed intruders in Kampung Sri Jaya, Siminul, Semporna, Sabah yesterday, bringing the number of Malaysian policemen killed in the incident to six.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Ismail Omar said six armed intruders were also killed in the exchange of fire that ensued in the 8pm incident in the water village.<\/p>\n<p>In the rescue operation launched today and which ended at 7pm, police also managed to bring out 19 of their men to safety from the village.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference at 9pm held at Felda Sahabat, Kampung Tanduo, here, Ismail also said that the bodies of the six policemen killed had been taken to Semporna Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their identities will be revealed to their respective families before being posted on the official website of the Royal Malaysian Police,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>At an earlier press conference today, Ismail announced that five policemen and two armed intruders were killed in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He had said that the five from the Semporna district police headquarters were tasked to carry out investigation in the village after police received information on the presence of a group of armed men in the village.<\/p>\n<p>He said the policemen were shot at while approaching a house in the village and they fired back to defend themselves.<\/p>\n<p>At tonight&#8217;s press conference, Ismail denied that policemen were held hostage in the incident and were decapitated by the intruders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is just a rumour and I ask the public not to believe any rumour on the incident,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the situation in the village had returned to normal. -Bernama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHAD DATU, March 3: Another policeman was killed in the ambush by a group of armed intruders in Kampung Sri Jaya, Siminul, Semporna, Sabah yesterday, bringing the number of Malaysian policemen killed in the incident to six. Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Ismail Omar said six armed intruders were also killed in the exchange of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}