LAHAD DATU: Jumlah individu yang maut atau cedera dalam insiden tembakan balas di antara pihak keselamatan Malaysia dan pemberontak Sulu dipercayai meningkat.
Selepas laporan pertama yang melaporkan dua pengikut Sulu terbunuh dan tiga anggota polis Malaysia cedera, maklumat yang diperoleh dari Kampung Tanduo di sini mendakwa sekurang-kurangnya 10 lelaki Sulu bersenjata mati dan empat lagi cedera.
Namun, tiada laporan mengesahkan mengenai empat anggota keselamatan yang cedera atau berlaku sebarang kematian.
Bagaimanapun, wartawan di pintu masuk Felda Sahabat 17 menuju ke Kampung Tanduo melihat dua mayat diusung menaiki jip oleh kakitangan perubatan pasukan keselamatan Malaysia.
Keluarga Sultan Kiram mengesahkan di Manila bahawa sekurang-kurangnya 10 anggotanya maut manakala empat lagi cedera.
Pesuruhjaya Polis Sabah, Datuk Hamza Taib enggan memberi komen dan memberitahu satu sidang media akan diadakan kemudian.
Sejak itu, pelbagai laporan mengenai bilangan individu yang cedera atau maut mula tersebar.
Dua komando polis terbunuh setelah terkena serangan mortar di Kampung Tanduo, yang menjadi kubu kumpulan penceroboh bersenjata dari selatan Filipina hari ini.
Mereka terkena serangan itu ketika sedang berkawal di satu daripada pos di sekitar Kampung Tanduo.
Wartawan Bernama yang berada di kawasan Felda Sahabat 17 di perkampungan itu berkata mayat dua anggota keselamatan itu diusung oleh polis dan dimasukkan ke dalam sebuah trak polis untuk dibawa ke Hospital Lahad Datu.
"Sehingga kini tiada pengesahan polis, kami hanya melihat mayat dengan boot hijau diusung ke dalam trak tersebut," katanya yang terpaksa keluar dari kawasan Felda itu setelah diarahkan pihak berkuasa.
Pada 2 petang, beliau berkata pihak berkuasa mengarahkan wartawan keluar kerana khuatir keselamatan mereka berikutan insiden tembakan masih berlaku.
Setakat ini, tiada pihak berkuasa boleh mengesahkan identiti anggota yang maut.
- Bernama
Baca laporan media Filipina Philstar.com:
File photo of a special police force guarding the area where the armed Filipino men are holding off, in a plantation outside Lahad Datu. — Reuters picThe standoff with police has threatened to spark tension between the Philippines and Malaysia, whose ties have been periodically frayed by security and migration problems along their sea border. Both governments have urged the group to return home.
Mereka terkena serangan itu ketika sedang berkawal di satu daripada pos di sekitar Kampung Tanduo.
Wartawan Bernama yang berada di kawasan Felda Sahabat 17 di perkampungan itu berkata mayat dua anggota keselamatan itu diusung oleh polis dan dimasukkan ke dalam sebuah trak polis untuk dibawa ke Hospital Lahad Datu.
"Sehingga kini tiada pengesahan polis, kami hanya melihat mayat dengan boot hijau diusung ke dalam trak tersebut," katanya yang terpaksa keluar dari kawasan Felda itu setelah diarahkan pihak berkuasa.
Pada 2 petang, beliau berkata pihak berkuasa mengarahkan wartawan keluar kerana khuatir keselamatan mereka berikutan insiden tembakan masih berlaku.
Setakat ini, tiada pihak berkuasa boleh mengesahkan identiti anggota yang maut.
- Bernama
Baca laporan media Filipina Philstar.com:
UPDATED @ 03:34:32 PM 01-03-2013 - Reuters
MANILA, March 1 — A standoff in Sabah erupted in violence today, with a spokesman for a group of armed Filipinos occupying a village in Lahad Datu saying 10 members of the group had been killed when police raided their camp.
But the Malaysian home minister denied that police had fired a shot and the Philippine government said it had received no reports of casualties among the group, who are followers of the Sultanate of Sulu, in the southern Philippines.
File photo of a special police force guarding the area where the armed Filipino men are holding off, in a plantation outside Lahad Datu. — Reuters picThe standoff with police has threatened to spark tension between the Philippines and Malaysia, whose ties have been periodically frayed by security and migration problems along their sea border. Both governments have urged the group to return home.
Abraham Idjirani, a spokesman for the group, told reporters in Manila that 10 members of the group had been killed and four wounded when Malaysian police raided the village where they have been holed up for more than two weeks.
Malaysia’s The Star newspaper reported that at least two gunmen had been killed and three police officers wounded.
The leader of the group earlier told Philippine radio they had been surrounded by Malaysian police, who have warned in recent days that a deadline for them to leave had passed.
“They are here, they entered our area so we have to defend ourselves. There’s shooting already,” Agbimuddin Kiram, brother of the former Sultan of Sulu, told the radio station by telephone.
“We’re surrounded,” Kiram said. “We will defend ourselves.”
Malaysian police could not be reached for comment.
Manuel Roxas, a Philippine government official who has been designated a spokesman on the stand-off, said in a radio interview that the Philippine government was verifying reports of the fighting.
Ricky Carandang, the Philippines’ presidential spokesman, said some of the group had tried to breach a cordon setup by the Malaysian security forces this morning.
“There was a warning shot but there’s no report of casualty, that was what we got and confirmed by the DFA (Department of Foreign Affairs),” he told Reuters.
The armed group is demanding recognition from Malaysia and renegotiation of the original terms of a lease on Sabah by the Sultanate to a British trading company in the 19th century. Malaysian officials have said the group’s demands would not be met. — Reuters
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Jangan percaya dulu baa dengan berita ini...boleh jadi ini merupakan suatu pembohongan untuk mewujudkan situasi panik dikalangan penduduk sabah khususnya....dan memberi alasan kepada pihak kera-jaan haramjadah BN mengisytiharkan dharurat dan membatalkan pilihanraya di Sabah.......TUNGGU DAN LIHAT DENGAN BUKTI YANG BENAR!
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