Sabah police surround island as gunman continues to elude capture

KOTA KINABALU: Police are maintaining a tight ring around a notorious Filipino settlement in Pulau Gaya, off the city here, where a gunman opened fire and injured three people, including two children.

The unidentified suspect, who was thought to have been hiding in the Kg Pondo settlement on the island, has slipped out of his hiding place in a boat under hundreds of wooden stilt houses of the island.