Semporna hit by kidnap attempt


Bangau Bangau water village near where Filipino gunmen landed at a fish farm.

SEMPORNA: A massive hunt is on for seven masked gunmen in Sabah's east coast waters at Semporna after a report that they were spotted at a fish farm in a kidnap attempt, about 200m from Kampung Bangau-Bangau here.

Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman said a worker from the Ah Chai Fish Farm informed police that the gunmen appeared just after midnight in search of the owners, a Chinese couple from Kelantan.

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