“FINALLY. For the first time bullets are used,” Audrey, a 40-year-old Sabahan, tweeted in reply to my tweet on The Star Online breaking news report.
Yesterday morning, the news website reported “Shootout drama at sea with Filipino gunmen off Sabah”. At about 9.40pm on Thursday, Malaysian security forces came into direct confrontation with a Filipino Kidnap for Ransom (KFR) group in waters off Semporna on the east coast of Sabah.
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