Swift police action has prevented hooligans from causing further violence and vandalism prior to a football match between Selangor and Perak, according to Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Hussein Omar Khan. The incident took place near the MBPJ Stadium on Saturday (Nov 25) ahead of the Malaysian Super League match. Comm Hussein stated that the police witnessed five Selangor supporters being attacked by a group of men who emerged from two black buses parked near the stadium. He also reported that the men were responsible for damaging four cars in the area. “This seemed premeditated. They came with ill intentions. The police quickly spotted what they were doing, and we stopped them,” said Comm Hussein after a community policing motorcycle ride to the Sepang police headquarters on Sunday (Nov 26).
The police arrested 20 men aged 16 to 36, with one of the suspects being wanted by police in connection to a murder case in Kajang. Three more had other criminal and drug-related offences, while twelve suspects also tested positive for drugs. All suspects have been remanded until Nov 29. “The police are also hunting two more suspects and investigating the group leader who planned the attack,” he said. In an unrelated matter, Comm Hussein said that the cause of death of the man who was found tied up and burnt near Lombong D’island in Puchong on Saturday (Nov 25) was burn wounds. “We initially opened the investigation as a murder case, but further information that we have obtained has led us to reclassify it based on statements by family members and witnesses. The time of death has been placed to be sometime early Saturday, and we have a witness that spotted the fire around that same time frame,” he said.
