Vietnamese gang that drills into and robs safe boxes busted by Kedah police

Kedah CID chief SAC Mior Farid Al Atrash Wahid (second right) and his his officers show the tools used by the Vietnamese gang to break into safeboxes. - Photo: GC Tan

ALOR SETAR: Kedah police have busted a mobile Vietnamese gang which steals valuables by drilling into metal safeboxes at shopping malls, godowns (warehouses), factories and petrol service stations.

The groups was nicknamed Gang Tebuk (Piercing Gang) and were "rampant" in Kedah, though they also hit targets all over peninsular Malaysia.