KOTA KINABALU: Security forces are on high alert following a shootout with an Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf group that saw five members of the cell gunned down by Malaysian police.
The red alert was issued as police fear the killings at a mangrove swamp squatter colony in southwestern Beaufort district on Monday morning could spark retaliation from remnant terrorists or sympathisers.
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