Beheading in viral photo not from Sabah, says police chief

KOTA KINABALU: Photographs of a beheaded man circulting in the social media were not of any gang clash in the east coast of Sabah.

Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman denied on Wednesday that the viral photograph depicting the severed torso of a man came from an incident in Tawau.

He said no such crime of beheading were reported anywhere in Sabah and urged the people to stop spreading such rumours in the social media.

“It is not in Sabah. We have got no such report,” he said.
 
Tawau district police chief Asst Comm Awang Besar Dullah also dismissed the claims as ‘untrue’.
 
Netizens speculated the photographs were taken following a gang clash along Jalan Apas in Tawau.