Nine detained over Myanmar man abduction


GEORGE TOWN (Bernama): Police detained nine individuals, including a woman to assist investigations into the abduction of a Myanmar national in front of a factory in Batu Kawan near here on Oct 21.

Penang police chief Comm Datuk Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain said seven Myanmar men along with a local man and a local woman, aged between 21 and 48, were nabbed in a series of raids in the state and Kedah from Oct 25 to Oct 28.

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