Students in Penampang awoken by unidentified bangs


Police gathering information at the scene of the crime.

KOTA KINABALU: City police are hunting for a group of teenagers believed to have fired shots from an airgun, which damaged several windowpanes of a college hostel at Bukit Padang in Penampang.

City police chief Assist Comm M. Chandra said according to the report lodged, a student was having dinner with a friend in her room when they heard several loud bangs at about 6.45pm Monday.

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