KOTA KINABALU: The police’s elite VAT69 commando unit in Kampung Tanduo was equipped with reconnaissance operations instead of those usually used in a firefight on March 1 last year, the High Court heard.
A VAT69 squad leader, Deputy Supt Hakemal Hawari, told judge Justice Stephen Chung that his team was only equipped with light weapons, including M16 and Bushmaster rifles as well as night vision goggles.
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