SANDAKAN: Five foreign gunmen stormed a Malaysian tugboat and grabbed the skipper and two crew in a daylight attack in the Sulawesi Sea near Pulau Mataking, off the east coast of Sabah.
Armed with M16 and AK47 rifles, the gunmen in a speedboat fired three shots before boarding the tugboat as it was passing through the Alice Channel international shipping route about 11am yesterday.
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