Lahad Datu Intrusion Trial: Security forces adopted restrained approach, court told


KOTA KINABALU: Malaysian security forces adopted a restrained approach when combing Tanjung Labian to flush out Sulu gunmen in March last year.

Mejer Mohd Nasir Aziz, a squadron leader of the Royal Armoured Corps of the 4th Regiment, told the High Court that he did not shoot directly at a gunman he spotted at a stilt house on March 6, and instead aimed at the ground. “I was carrying out the operation from inside an armoured personnel carrier when the gunmen continued firing at us. I fired a second round at the walls on the house. I finally shot the intruder directly when he did not stop,“ he said.

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