KANGAR: A Thai man with a gunshot wound on his buttocks was found tangled in a wire fence along the Malaysia-Thailand border on Tuesday.
Perlis police chief SAC Shafie Ismail said the man was later arrested by General Operations Force (PGA) personnel.
He said the foreigner was earlier seen with a group of seven or eight people who made a turn back to Thailand's area through the border fence that had been cut, when they came across the PGA personnel at Post 24 at about 5am.
"At the same time, four shots were fired from the direction of the men but we were not sure to whom the shots were directed. The PGA personnel did not fire back and none of them were shot," he told reporters.
Shafie said when the situation returned to normal, an inspection found the man tangled at the border wire fence.
He said the man was taken to the Jitra Hospital and was later transferred to the Alor Setar Hospital to undergo surgery. - Bernama
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