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Police: Bukit Bintang hand grenade explosion’s prime suspect identified
Member of a bomb squad unit investigates the scene of a grenade explosion outside Sun Complex near Jalan Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur, October 9, 2014. u00e2u20acu201d Picture by Yusof Mat Isa

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 17 — Police have identified the prime suspect, a male in his 40s, believed to be involved in the hand grenade explosion incident in front of a night club in Sun Complex, Bukit Bintang last October 9.

Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Tajudin Md Isa said this was based on the image recorded by the closed-circuit television (CCTV) at the scene of the incident.

“However results from the CCTV footage images show at least two unidentified men were suspected to be also involved in the incident.

“Following the discovery of the images, the police forensic team has intensified its efforts to get the assistance of other agencies to analyse them,” he told a media conference here today.

He said the suspect’s information and image would be released to the media soon.

On the recordings of conversation from the five men who were arrested yesterday, Tajudin said four of them were personal bodyguards at the night club.

Yesterday police arrested five men, aged between 25 and 46, at the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters to help investigation and all the suspects were remanded until this Monday.

He said the police were also in the process of tracking visitors to the entertainment centre on the night of the incident to assist investigations.

Last October 9, a car jockey, Tiong Kwong Yie, 36, was killed and 12 others were injured, including foreign tourists in the explosion believed to be related to territorial dispute by secret triads in the area. — Bernama

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