Myanmar slayings due to grudge borne way back, say cops


GEORGE TOWN: The recent murders involving Myanmar nationals in Penang have nothing to do with the ethnic tension back in their country.

Penang police chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Wira Abdul Rahim Hanafi said investigations carried out on the 17 Myanmar nationals, aged between 20s and 40s, arrested over the past two weeks confirmed that the murders were not a spillover of the ethnic conflict.

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