Cops arrest Kuala Muda police station Molotov cocktail attackers

PETALING JAYA: Police have arrested four men, including one with seven past criminal records, in connection with a Molotov cocktail attack at the Kuala Muda police headquarters in Sungai Petani, Kedah on Saturday.
Kedah CID chief SAC Mior Farid Al Athrash said all four suspects were apprehended in a special operation in the district yesterday morning.
The four suspects, aged between 25 and 41 years old, have been remanded under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code for four days to facilitate investigations into the attack.
The case is being investigated under Section 506 of the Penal Code for criminal intimidation.
In the incident that happened at 3.30am on Saturday, two men on a motorbike left a threatening banner and hurled a molotov cocktail at the district police headquarters, seemingly against the police force's current crackdown on triads in Kedah.
A policeman tried to approach the two men who had stopped at the entrance of the headquarters but they jumped on their motorcycle and sped off.
While fleeing the scene, one of them men flung the cocktail towards the entrance which left burn marks on the entrance wall.
The banner they left behind had a threatening message on it where they accused the police of being racist for arresting only Indians in their raids.
The last line of the banner read: "Last warning for PDRM".
Since then, police have rubbished claims that they are only apprehending Indians in their crackdown.
Kedah police chief Datuk Asri Yusoff said the police are only focusing their efforts to decimate the notorious Gang 35.
"It is nothing to do with any race, it just so happens that most of Gang 35 are Indians. We are not singling out any ethnic group in enforcing the law," he said.