Cops gun down three robbers after dramatic car chase


Fatal ending: A crowd gathering at the scene of the shootout in Sungai Siput. (above) DCP Paramasivam (second from left) showing some of the items recovered from the stolen car.

IPOH: Three robbers who had been terrorising their victims since July last year finally paid with their lives during a shootout with the police.

Believed to be foreigners, they were about to break into a house at Jalan Lasah, Sungai Siput, when a special task force from the state police contingent spotted them at about 4.45am yesterday.

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