Security guard kidnapped and killed in Bukit Mertajam

GEORGE TOWN: A 61-year-old security guard was alleged to have been kidnapped and beaten to death by three Myanmar nationals early this morning in Bukit Minyak, Bukit Mertajam.
State CID chief SAC Mazlan Kesah said the police dog unit (K9) found the victim, K.Poobalan, dumped at an oil palm estate in Taman Impian Alma, Bukit Mertajam, around am.
He said police came to know of the incident after a taxi driver lodged a police report.
Mazlan said the taxi driver claimed to have picked up the three men at a bus stop in Jalan Permatang Tinggi around 5.30pm on Thursday, who told him to take them to Taman Seri Juru.
When they reached the area, Mazlan added, the trio asked the driver to wait for them while they went to look for a friend.
The taxi driver then claimed that after half-an-hour, the suspects returned with a man, whom they forced into the cab and beat up with a stick inside the cab.
One of the three men then brandished a knife to the driver's neck and asked him to drop them off at Taman Impian Alma, the taxi driver claimed.
The victim who was left in the cab succumbed to multiple head injuries, Mazlan said.
He said the driver then immediately lodged the police report.
"We have identified who the three suspects are and we are now looking for them," he told reporters today.
The case has been classified as murder.