The Sabah connection


THERE is a Sabah link to the deadly suicide bombings at Jolo cathedral in 2019 and the church in Makassar in 2021.

The perpetrators of the bombings that killed 23 and injured more than 100 in the southern Philippines and wounded 20 people in Indonesia are connected to an Indonesian family who lived in the interior of Sabah for about two months.

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