Six suspects arrested over brutal elephant killing, believed to be plantation guards | Malay Mail

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KOTA KINABALU, Oct 2 — Police have arrested a total of six suspects over the brutal killing of a juvenile Borneon pygmy elephant in a series of raids from 12.20am up to this afternoon. Tawau district police chief assistant commissioner Peter Umbuas told a news conference there that the arrests...

Wednesday, 02 Oct 2019 05:02 PM MYTPeter Umbuas showing some of the weapons and guns that were believed to be used by the suspects behind the merciless killing of a juvenile elephant in Sabah.

“The arrest led to three other raids conducted up to 4am in the Felda Umas district up to which led to the arrest of three other suspects, who were found with an assortment of weapons, including one Iver Johnson 30 inch single barrel pump gun, a handmade air rifle, a homemade shotgun also known as ‘bakakuk’, a variety of 75 live bullets, air rifle bullets and shells among other things,” he said.

Last week, news that the carcass of 30-year-old elephant was found floating in the Sungai Udin river in Kalabakan had spread online.

 

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