Special Action Unit combating terror 40 years on


PETALING JAYA: Forty years ago, a group of Japanese terrorists took 50 people hostage in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.

The event on Aug 4, 1975 took the country by surprise as any form of terror at that point was expected to be related to the communist insurgency.

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