Sarawak cops arrest duo over false FB posts


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 22 Feb 2017

This facebook posting about child kidnapping in Sarawak is false said the state police.

MIRI: Sarawak police raided the homes of two men in the around midnight and 2am and arrested them for posting fake news about child-kidnapping in Sarawak on Facebook.

State CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Dev Kumar said the cops arrested a security guard and a driver, both of them in Sibu town at about 11.30 pm and 2am.

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