SUBANG JAYA (Bernama): Police presence has brought calm to the area in and around the Sri Maha Mariamman temple in USJ25 here following a scuffle between two rival groups over the 100-year-old temple relocation.
According to Bernama, police have closed the road leading to the temple and traffic policemen helped to facilitate traffic flow in the wake of heavy congestion on Monday (Nov 26) morning.
Crowds of people who had gathered in the vicinity of the temple have dispersed.
Police have arrested two men in their 30s to help in investigation into the incident that took place at the temple at about 2am.
"Eighteen cars and two motorcycles were torched.
A police patrol car was also damaged by stones thrown during the incident," Selangor police chief Datuk Mazlan Mansor told reporters at the Subang Jaya district police headquarters.
Videos on the incident have gone viral on social media.
The temple was to have been relocated on Nov 22 following a consent judgment on March 11, 2014, at the Shah Alam High Court. - Bernama
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