Police recover RM349,700 kidnappers stashed at temple


Long arm of the law: Police officers helped by a Fire & Rescue Department personnel arrest one of the three kidnapping suspects (in red shirt) who hid inside an Indian temple under construction at Taman Sutera, Sungai Petani, Kedah.

ALOR SETAR: Five kidnappers who escaped with RM350,000 in ransom after they kidnapped a 13-year-old son of a dermatologist could only spend RM300 before they were caught.

Police arrested three of them at 2am on Friday at a construction site at Taman Sutera in Sungai Petani, while two others were detained here on Thursday.

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