Lahad Datu intrusion: Court told security forces retaliated when intruders started shooting

KOTA KINABALU: Malaysian security forces received no orders to attack the Sulu gunmen in Tanduo but retaliated when they were fired upon on March 1 last year.

The police VAT69 commando Supt Mancha Laga, who was among the security teams which encountered the Sulu gunmen in Kampung Tanduo of Lahad Datu on that day, said that although the skirmishes involved several teams, it was not because they had received an order to attack the intruders.