Retired policeman shoots Ah Long

Three loan sharks met their match in a retired policeman, who shot one of them in the buttocks.

In the 4.30pm incident on Wednesday, the Ah Long had gone to the former cop’s house in Taman Shatin here looking for his son.

Armed with sticks, the loan sharks, in their 20s, created a ruckus at the 70-year-old man’s house, following which he fired his rifle at them in self-defence, hitting one of suspects.

The suspect was later sent to a private hospital here for treatment while a remand order was obtained for the other two suspects.

When contacted, state CID chief Senior Asst Comm (II) Mohd Dzuraidi Ibrahim confirmed the incident.

“We are still investigating what led to the shooting,” he said.

Asked whether it was normal for a retired policeman to own a rifle, SAC Mohd Dzuraidi said: “They can apply for it.”

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Mat Rempit Strikes Again!

Just the other day, 2 guys were attacked by 50 Mat Rempits. Now, a lady waiting at a bus stop was robbed by the same menace to society. What's next?

When will the Home Ministry solve this menace and disgrace? This problem has been terrorising us for God knows how long. They are nothing but robbers on motorcycles or should I label them with harsher words... terrorists on our roads!

One of my unfortunate friends was attacked by Mat Rempits 2 years back. The incident left him with a bloodied face and damages to his car of almost RM15,000.

If the police cannot handle these Rempits, perhaps the Ministry of Defence should step in? Send in the armoured cars, helicopters, army or what have you and STOP these terrorists.

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Five dead in suspected arson

Five people, including four family members, were killed when the cabin they were living in Jalan Sungai Buloh was razed in a suspected arson attack.

The victims were identified as Poritish Kumar, 32, Tounsari Das, 28, their two children two-year-old Prema and eight-month-old Shilpa. All of them are Bangladeshis.

Also killed in the incident was a local man identified only as 50-year-old Ah Yong. He was living in a partition in the cabin.

Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Arjunaidi Mohamed said all five were asleep when the fire hit them about 5am on Wednesday.

He said the local man and Poritosh are believed to be working in a second-hand car dealer located in front of the cabin.

However police are still investigating the background of the victims and how long Paritosh and his family had been in the country.

“We could not find any of their documents at the scene. The documents must have been destroyed in the blaze,” he said in a press conference on Wednesday.

The case has been classified under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder according to evidence found at the scene.

ACP Arjunaidi said police believe the fire was a pre-planned incident by someone known to the victims or the owner of the car dealer.

Police have contacted the employer of the victims and were in the midst of recording his statement.

Initial investigation also revealed that the cabin door was locked outside with a wire.

Paritosh was believed have tried to escape the fire as his body was found near the locked door.

The Fire and Rescue Department from Sungai Buloh sent two fire engines and 12 men to the scene at about 5.30am after receiving a distress call 15 minutes earlier and took them 20 minutes to put out the fire.

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I saw croc drag him in: Colleague

A plywood factory foreman was seen dragged into the murky water of Sungai Bako by a crocodile and was still missing as at press time yesterday.

TRAUMATISED: A visibly shaken Farizan (left) recounts the incident to reporters. At third left is Sharizal.

Identified only as Pak Jono, an Indonesian in his 40s, the victim was with two fellow workers looking for fish in the stream behind the plywood factory at Demak Laut Lorong 7 when the incident happened around 11am.

According to one of the workers, Farizan Gom, 31, the group was standing waist-deep in the river when he saw the head of a crocodile suddenly lunging up from beneath the water and grabbing hold of the left side of Pak Jono’s stomach before dragging him under.

“The incident was so sudden that Pak didn’t even scream. I was only about two feet away from him when it happened. I saw the croc drag him in,” said a visibly shaken Farizan, who hails from Kota Samarahan and has only been working at the factory for two months.

He immediately made his way to the river bank together with the other co-worker, 18-year-old Sharizan Rahman, and stood there scanning the water in the hope of seeing the foreman surfacing.

“We saw the croc surfaced momentarily at the other end of the river bank with what looked like one of Pak’s yellow rubber boots in its mouth before it disappeared underwater again,” said Sharizan, who too appeared shaken.

After that, the duo said they saw the reptile, which they described as ‘fairly large’, surfaced two more times further upriver before losing sight of it altogether.

Together with another worker, Jamadil Radat, 20, who was standing on the edge of the river bank at the time of the incident, the group rushed back to their quarters about 20 metres away and informed everyone of Pak Jono’s fate.

They then informed the factory owner, who contacted the police, before lodging a police report of the incident.

A police team led by officer-in-charge of Gita police station Chief Inspector Fauzan Abu Kassim arrived at the scene together with personnel from the Civil Defence Department, who proceeded to mount a search operation using two boats.

However, there was no sign of the victim as of yesterday evening.

When met after the incident yesterday, the victim’s wife Ramliedi, 42, said she never expected such a fate to befall her husband as he fished in the river many times during his five years of working at the factory.

The distraught woman revealed the couple has four children together, with the youngest only five years old.

She said her eldest son, 21, had only recently arrived in the city to look for work while her second son, 18, and a 13-year-old daughter are staying in Pontianak.

For Farizan, meanwhile, the experience of seeing a fellow worker being attacked by a crocodile right in front of his eyes has left him traumatised.

“It was my first time going into the river to look for fish, but it will certainly be the last,” he shuddered, while casting a wary eye towards the river.

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Better safe than sorry

Two buildings housing a bank along Jalan Semantan have been closed by authorities until further notice as a precautionary measure following a landslip at its open air car park last Thursday.

"There are no cracks on the wall. But for safety reasons we have advised them to evacuate until further notice," said City Hall’s director-general Datuk Salleh Yusup. The buildings, Commerce Square and Amanah Raya, were not affected in the incident.

City Hall has contacted relevant parties so that immediate repairs can be conducted.

"This case is being monitored by City Hall’s works department and we have called up the developer, land owner and also referred the matter to Public Works Institute of Malaysia for further action," said Salleh.

City Hall has placed plastic covers on the slope to prevent further soil erosion and has also diverted a monsoon drain so that it does not affect the repair work.

"It’s difficult to measure the safety of the area or to conduct tests at the moment because of the rain," said Federal Territories Deputy Minister Datuk M. Saravanan.

Meanwhile, a CIMB spokesman said business resumed the next day despite the landslip incident. Some 300 staff have been relocated and all operations have been diverted to several back-up sites in the Klang Valley.

CIMB group chief executive Datuk Seri Nazir Razak said there had been no material disruption in any of their operations.

The key bank functions that were housed in the buildings included stock broking, corporate banking, risk management, international banking and transaction services.

On Dec 4, a 20-metre high retaining wall collapsed, damaging 11 cars and caused traffic congestion along Jalan Semantan.

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Save your car from this

WITH the constant hand wringing by the authorities in dealing with flash floods, motorists should seriously start asking themselves whether they need flood insurance, how much it costs and what
it covers.

According to an insurance brokerage house, most motorists are unaware that general insurance policies do not cover properties — including vehicles — damaged by floods as it is considered an “act of nature”.

“As far as the general insurance industry is concerned, policies do not extend to cover floods,” said Intan Insurance Broker Sdn Bhd chief executive officer G. Narayanan.

He said the standard annual premium rate for all vehicles is 0.5 per cent of the sum insured.

“For instance, if a motorist wants a RM100,000 flood coverage, then he has to fork out RM500 in annual premium, which is 0.5 per cent of the sum insured.”

Narayanan, who has been in the industry for more than 15 years, said the general public is still unaware that such a policy exists.

“Only those who are often hit by floods make an attempt to insure their vehicles,” he said.

However, he said they can insure their vehicles against floods for any amount they wish.

“Insurance companies only pay for the amount insured. If the insured amount is not sufficient to pay for the damage, then the motorists have to fork out the balance.”

On whether private parking companies are liable for damage due to floods, Narayanan said the companies are usually covered by a professional liability policy.

“Although most of the operators are instructed by the insurance companies not to admit guilt if a motorist sues, and in the event the court finds them liable, they are protected by the liability
cover.”

He urged motorists who live or park their vehicles in flood-prone areas to consult insurers to get professional advice.

On Tuesday evening, thousands of motorists were stuck in massive traffic jams for more than two hours after a storm caused flash foods in various parts of the city.

Some motorists had to abandon their cars in the middle of the road when the flood waters threatened to submerge their vehicles.

The rain, which started in the afternoon, was so intense that it caused Sungai Gombak to quickly swell and overflow.

Vehicles in underground car parks were submerged and thousands of motorists were caught for hours in a traffic gridlock.

Blaming the debacle on elected representatives, Federation of Malaysian Consumers Association (Fomca) said if only the elected representatives had been proactive and ensured that the authorities
carried out their jobs properly, such a situation could have been averted.

Fomca secretary-general Muhammad Sha’ani Abdullah said it was common that after a flood, the blame game would start.

“This is something that must stop. The people should take it upon themselves to pressure their elected representatives to ensure that flood mitigation works are carried out immediately so
that such incidents would not recur,” he said.

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Twin Otter veers off Bario runway

A MASwings Twin Otter aircraft veered off the runway after landing at the Bario airstrip at about 1.00 pm last Tuesday.
Fortunately, all 16 passengers on board MH3434, as well as the pilot and co-pilot, were safe.
The two pilots managed to bring the aircraft, which had taken off from here, to a safe stop on the grass verge.
MASwings Managing Director, Mohd Salleh Ahmad Tabrani, said in a press statement yesterday that the airlines’ engineers were rushed to Bario at 4.45 pm last Tuesday but they found no damage to the aircraft.
He added that the aircraft was given the clearance by the engineers to take off for Miri at about 6.20 pm the same day.
However, the incident forced the airline to cancel four flights involving Miri, Lawas and Marudi. The affected passengers were flown to their respective destinations yesterday.

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Terrible images of Kugan

ALMOST two months after A. Kugan died in the Subang Taipan police lock-up, his mother, N. Indra, still cries herself to sleep every night.

Now, sleep is even more elusive after she came to know about the pain and suffering he endured before he died, five days after he was arrested on Jan 15 in connection with police investigations into a series of luxury car thefts.

Every time she closes her eyes, she sees her son’s bruised, battered and burnt body.



In an interview with Malay Mail, Indra said she is still unable to accept the fact that her son is gone, so much so her husband, R. Ananthan, refused to show her the second post-mortem report prepared y the independent pathologist hired by the family. The report was released on Monday.

Ananthan relented only after Indra insisted. What she saw shocked her.

“I have never laid a finger on my son but these heartless policemen beat him to death. Only a mother knows how I feel. The pain is so unbearable that I wish I were dead,” she alleged of the case that the Attorney-General has reclassified as murder.

My life has changed forever.

He is my first-born. The manner in which I lost him makes it even more difficult for me to deal with. I did not carry him for nine months in my womb just so that someone can torture him this way.

“There were signs that he was starving before he died. He was never hungry when he was with me. I would cook him his favourite dish, fried chicken and nuggets, whenever he was hungry.”

Indra said her three other children miss Kugan too but that the one hardest hit is her husband.

“As a father, he always thought that Kugan would be around to provide for the family if anything were to happen to him. He loved Kugan more than anything in this world. Now, he worries
about who will take care of the family if he dies.”

Yesterday, Kugan’s family members and relatives, accompanied by their lawyer N. Surendran, Teluk Intan MP M. Manoharan, Kapar MP S. Manikavasagam and Police Watch coordinator S. Jayathas submitted the second post-mortem report to the Attorney-General’s office at Putrajaya.
A-G Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, however, is in Mecca, performing the umrah. The head of the chamber’s prosecution division, Tun Majid Tun Hamzah, received the report on his behalf.

Tun Majid declined to comment.

Surendran hoped that the attorney-general would take immediate action.

“It is up to the A-G now. He has classified the case as murder and we have submitted the relevant evidence.

So, the ball is in his court.”

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Malay Mail - Your Voice Brutal report shocks cops

THE torture of 22-year-old A. Kugan in police custody that included hot-branding him like an animal, unheard of in local crime history, will open fresh investigations into his death.

Pathologist Prof Dr Abdul Karim Tajuddin of Serdang Hospital, who conducted the first post-mortem, and the 11 policemen who interrogated Kugan are now at the centre of a new police probe.

Police sources last night told Malay Mail that the revelations of the second autopsy are “horrific
and unprecedented”.

“Much as we would like it to be an isolated case, such torture of a detainee is unthinkable,” said a source.

Questions are being asked if there was a “cover-up” and certain quarters have demanded for Selangor police chief DCP Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar's resignation.

Kapar MP S. Manicakavasagam has branded Khalid a “liar”.

Dr Abdul Karim has not only to answer to the police but the Malaysian Medical Council as well “due to the huge discrepancies in both the reports”, say sources.

The sources said Dr Abdul Karim, who did the first post-mortem on Jan 21, has to be interviewed by police again “as his and the independent report don’t make sense”.

“Further, there is also a possibility that the deceased's family might level charges against him for making a false or incomplete post-mortem report,” a source said.

Another inexplicable point, said Kugan’s family lawyer, N. Surendran, is that the second post-mortem report indicated that no examination below the heart area of the deceased’s body was conducted during the first post-mortem.


Surendran said this was confusing as it was compulsory for any pathologist to conduct a complete check.

Questions have been raised over how Dr Abdul Karim could have missed:

● A 5.5cm x 4.5cm area of contusion over the entire back of Kugan with multiple, repeated application of heat with an instrument or object with a triangular surface.

● This caused multiple “V” shaped burn wounds on Kugan’s back.

● These wounds were healing, as was evident from the formation of black crust and a few were infected and covered with purulent exudates or, in layman’s terms, pus.

The police would have to record fresh statements from all concerned “given the shocking nature of the report”, said police sources of the explosive independent second autopsy report released by Kugan’s family lawyers yesterday.

It had been reported that police had been mulling charging the 11 policemen allegedly involved with voluntarily causing hurt to extort a confession under Section 330 of the Penal Code.

All 11 are currently on desk duty at Selangor police headquarters in Shah Alam and the sources said suspensions were now unavoidable “as the (second) post-mortem report is a damning indictment of the police”.

The second post-mortem at University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) was commissioned
by Kugan’s family after they were dissatisfied with the first report tendered by Serdang Hospital.

On whether Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail will accept an independent autopsy report, lawyers said he was duty-bound to do so.

Pakatan Rakyat MPs will hand the report to Gani at his office in Putrajaya today. Gani yesterday declined comment.

Surendran said he received the autopsy report, with photographs, from UMMC pathologist Dr Prashant N. Samberkar at 5.30pm on Monday in the presence of the UMMC legal officer.

Surendran alleged that the report showed that the assailants could foresee that Kugan would have died.

Kugan died at the Subang Taipan police station on Jan 20, six days after he had been arrested in connection with car thefts.

What he suffered

Lawyer N. Surendran, who listed the abuse A. Kugan endured, summed it up thus: "It appears that Kugan was severely tortured over a period of days and the kind of pain he suffered is unimaginable."

The abuse discovered in the second autopsy, according to Surendran:

Being burnt 17 times with an extremely hot iron instrument:

Kugan was branded, just like how cattle are marked, by the "repeated application of heat with an instrument with a triangular surface". There were multiple "V"-shaped burn wounds imprinted on his back. Some wounds were healing while others were infected;

Almost the entire back was covered with contusions, marks and bruises;
Starved during his detention;
Suffered massive internal bleeding due to repeated beatings:

There was haemorrhaging in many of his internal organs, including his heart, left lung, spleen and kidneys, the back of his neck, spine area and the soles of his feet, which showed that he took consistent beatings;

Suffered internal bleeding in the scalp area following repeated beatings with a blunt object;
Died of acute kidney failure due to the assault:

The beatings had caused a breakdown in Kugan's muscle cells which then congested the blood flow and resulted in kidney failure.

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Jittery over collapsed TNB wall

JOHN, who lives in Jalan Setiabudi, Damansara Heights, is unhappy with the inefficiency of Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) for not addressing the issue of a collapsed wall next to his home.

He said the TNB substation’s retaining wall next to his house collapsed for the first time six months ago, after heavy rain. He claims that nothing was done to address the issue, except for the installation of a temporary fence.

JOHN says the problem was finally addressed about a month ago, with the construction of a new retaining wall.

However, the new wall only lasted three days before collapsing again. But this latest incident had a more extensive effect — due to it falling across the drain and thus interrupting the flow of waste water.

As a result, the drain water overflows, especially during heavy rain. This has further caused soil around the drain to become waterlogged and has now caused a hole to appear at the base of the retaining wall at JOHN’s house.

Worried that the problem could worsen at any time, especially during the current rainy season, JOHN wonders just how long TNB would take to fix the problem this time round.

● A SPOKESMAN for Tenaga Nasional Bhd says the firm is working closely with the contractor to repair the collapsed wall to ensure that the problem does not recur.
“Work to clear the collapsed wall alone will take three weeks. This will be followed by additional work to strengthen the base of the retaining wall, after which a new wall will be built,” she says.

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Bad altimeter a factor in Netherlands plane crash

AMSTERDAM – Investigators said Wednesday a faulty altimeter played an important role in a Turkish Airlines crash that killed 9 people in the Netherlands.

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The Dutch Safety Authority said the plane was being landed on automatic pilot and the problem with the altimeter, a device that measures altitude, led to a loss of airspeed before the crash.

The Boeing 737-800 carrying 135 passengers and crew went down in a muddy field one kilometer (less than a mile) short of the runway at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport shortly before it was due to land on Feb. 25.

Chief investigator Pieter van Vollenhoven said the airplane had twice before experienced problems with its altimeter. Boeing has been instructed to warn clients of the problem, he said.

(AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta) - Turkish pilots salute as they stand next to the coffin of their colleague Olgay Ozgur during a ceremony outside the Turkish Airlines headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009. Turkish Airlines held a funeral service for three pilots and a flight attendant who died when its Boeing 737-800 crashed in a field near Amsterdam airport three days ago, shattering into three pieces. Hundreds gathered outside the Turkish Airlines' Istanbul headquarters to paid tribute to pilots Hasan Tahsin Arisan, Olgay Ozgur and Murat Sezer and flight attendant Ulvi Murat Eskin.

At 1950 feet (around 700 meters) "the airplane's left radio altimeter suddenly registered a change in altitude" of negative 8 feet (about 2 meters). "It didn't only register it, but passed it on to the automatic steering system," Van Vollenhoven said.

Van Vollenhoven said it was not unusual to land a plane on autopilot.

According to conversation recorded between the plane's captain, first officer and an extra first officer on the flight, the pilots noticed the faulty altimeter but didn't consider it a problem and didn't react, Van Vollenhoven said.

Gas to the engines was reduced and the plane lost speed, decelerating until, at a height of 450 feet (150 meters) the plane was about to stall, and warning systems alerted the pilots.

"From the "black box" (data recorders) it appears that then the pilots immediately gave gas, full gas, however it was too late to recover," Van Vollenhoven said.

He said that the pilots had been unable to see the runway at the time the plane began its descent due to weather conditions — cloudy with a light rain.

The plane fell into a freshly plowed field, striking the ground tail first and breaking into three pieces.

Those killed in the crash included five Turks and four Americans.

Turkish Airlines said the dead included the pilots.The American dead included three Boeing employees on a business trip unrelated to the flight.

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US and Russian satelittes collide at high speed over Siberia

US and Russian communications satellites have collided in space in the first such reported accident. A satellite owned by the US company Iridium hit a defunct Russian satellite at high speed nearly 780km (485 miles) over Siberia on Tuesday, Nasa said.

The risk to the International Space Station and a shuttle launch planned for later this month is said to be low. The impact produced massive clouds of debris, and the magnitude of the crash is not expected to be clear for weeks.

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7 die in gun-gang’s attack on Sri Lankan cricket team

SIX policemen and a civilian were killed when a dozen men attacked Sri Lanka's cricket team with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers.

The gunmen also wounded seven Sri Lankan players and an assistant coach from Britain. Their injuries were not life-threatening, officials said.

The attackers ambushed the convoy carrying the squad and match officials around 100 yards from the main sports stadium in Lahore, triggering a 15-minute gun battle with police guarding the vehicles.

None of the attackers was killed or captured at the scene, city police chief Haji Habibur Rehman said. Authorities did not speculate on the identities of the attackers or their motives.

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Two of the Sri Lankan players - Thilan Samaraweera and Tharanga Paranavitana - were stable in hospital.

Team captain Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Ajantha Mendis, Suranka Lakmal and Chaminda Vaas all suffered minor injuries, along with British assistant coach Paul Farbrace.

Veteran batsman Sangakkara told Sri Lankan radio station Yes-FM that "all the players are completely out of danger".

Authorities immediately canceled the test match and the Lahore governor said the team was flying home.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa condemned the attack and ordered his foreign minister to immediately travel to Pakistan to help assist in the team's evacuation and ensure they were safe.

TV footage of the attack showed gunmen with backpacks firing at the convoy as they retreated from the scene.

Several damaged vehicles could be clearly seen, and a lone, unexploded grenade was lying on the ground.

Other video showed the bodies of three people crumpled on the ground.

Nadeem Ghauri, a Pakistani umpire who witnessed the attack, said: "The firing started at about 8:40 and it continued for 15 minutes, our driver was hit, and he was injured."

Lahore police chief Rehman said officers were hunting down the attackers who managed to flee.

Later, at least eight Sri Lankan players and team officials left the stadium on a Pakistani army helicopter for Lahore airport.

Sri Lanka had agreed to the tour only after India and Australia postponed scheduled trips.

The attack - coordinated, using multiple gunmen armed with explosives - is reminiscent of the Mumbai strikes in November that led to raised tensions between Pakistan and India.

In the past, India and Pakistan have blamed each other for attacks on their territories.

Any allegations like that will trigger fresh tensions between the countries, which are already running dangerously high.

The Tamil Tigers, fighting for an independent state for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, rarely launch attacks outside Sri Lanka.

Most of the violence in Pakistan occurs in its northwest regions bordering Afghanistan, where Taliban and al-Qaida militants have established strongholds.

However, Lahore has not been immune from militant violence.

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Mat Rempit madness again

Just months after a gang of Mat Rempit cornered a 31-year-old marketing executive along Jalan
Pahang and beat him up – leaving him bleeding from the head and with multiple injuries – another
motorist and his friend were savagely attacked by a group of thugs on two wheels last Tuesday.

On Nov 11 last year, Malay Mail carried the story of Ray, a marketing executive who had been assaulted by Mat Rempit on Jalan Pahang on Nov 6. Tuesday saw Sunildeep Singh, 24, and Parminder Singh, 20, attacked by some 20 Mat Rempit, on the same stretch.

“I’ve read about Mat Rempit and how they are a menace on our roads, but I never thought that my
son would one day be a victim of their brutality,” said Sunildeep’s mother, Baivinder Kaur, 54.

Parminder was driving Sunildeep home when a motorcyclist drew alongside the car. The two men on the motorcycle signalled them to pull over. Parminder pulled over in front of the National Art Gallery.

When he rolled down the window, the bikers accused him of hitting them with the car. They demanded money as compensation.

The two friends got out to check for damage and to settle the problem, and that’s when the mob of
bikers suddenly appeared and pounced on them.

Sunildeep’s brother, Anildeep, 28, told Malay Mail that the group took his brother's gold chain, wallet and cell phone. When the Mat Rempit tried to grab the car keys, Sunildeep threw them into the bushes nearby. That enraged the Mat Rempit even more. “I manged to get away but Sunildeep was surrounded.

They beat him mercilessly,” said Parminder, who escaped serious injury. He lodged a report immediately at the Setapak police station.

The group had allegedly used helmets, iron rods and knuckledusters.

Sunildeep suffered a broken jaw, a blood clot in his head, massive swelling on his left eye and
lips, and a badly bruised body.

He has been undergoing treatment at Tawakal Hospital, where doctors are planning to operate on
his jaw today.

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Nine die as aircraft crashes near Amsterdam

Flight TK1951 was within sight of the runway on its final approach to Schiphol airport when, without warning, it seemed to fall out of the sky and crashed tail-first into a field with the loss of at least nine lives.

Survivors described last night how, in a matter of seconds, the Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 from Istanbul to Amsterdam plummeted to the ground and split into three, leaving 84 of the 127 passengers injured, many seriously, and three of the seven crew members dead in the cockpit.

Investigators refused to speculate why the aircraft had descended too soon, or to comment on suggestions that its tail smashed into the ground as it tried to regain height or tried to execute an emergency landing. Dutch officials ruled out terrorism as a possible cause of the crash.

A British mother, Susan Lord, her Turkish husband, Jakavus Labeij, and their daughters, Sofia and Lisa, were among those who escaped, The Times understands.

Speaking from his hospital bed, one of the passengers, Tancer Mutlucan, a bank executive, said: “The pilot had announced that we would be landing in 15 minutes. Then about seven or eight minutes later we just crashed. There was not even time to worry about what was happening.

“First we thought it was just a violent landing but then we suddenly descended and there was impact. We suddenly found ourselves in a field.”

The Turkish Transport Minister said that it had been a miracle that more were not killed and that, perhaps because of the muddy conditions, there had been no fire or explosion as the two engines broke off.

“The chance of survival in plane accidents is close to zero. And this is a miracle,” Binali Yildirim said. “The fact that the plane crashed on soft ground and that there was no fire decreased the death toll.”

The emergency services at Schiphol, Europe’s fourth busiest airport, went into action within minutes of the aircraft skidding to a halt about 250 metres from the perimeter fence, less than a kilometre from the runway and next to the busy A9 highway, at 10.31am. The injured were taken to 11 hospitals, including an emergency army field hospital set up in Utrecht.

Officials said that 25 people were seriously wounded, with six in a critical condition last night.

Tomas Friedhoff, a student who was cycling past, said the aircraft appeared to have lost power. “The plane was nose up and the tail section at a 45-degree angle,” he said. “The tail section came down first, and broke off.

“Seconds after the crash people started exiting through the tail section. I saw dozens of people making it out very quickly, and as I was about to dial 911 the first sirens were noticeable, and within five minutes there were 10 or 15 ambulances.”

Survivors described a few seconds of silence after the impact, followed by the screams of those trapped and injured. “All of a sudden the back end of the plane dropped and then it crashed down on its front end and broke into three pieces,” a male passenger said.

“I was OK because I was in the middle. It was the people towards the tail and at the front who could not get out. I heard screaming. Near the tail there was a man with his feet stuck and people were kicking him to try to get his feet out.”

Another passenger said: “For the first ten seconds it was silent, and after that we heard crying and screaming. There was a lot of panic and a lot of wounded people.”

Candan Karlitekin, head of Turkish Airlines’ board of directors, said that conditions had been good. “Visibility was clear and around 5,000 yards,” he said. “We have checked the plane’s documents and there is no problem concerning maintenance.”

The airline’s chief, Temel Kotil, said that the captain, Hasan Tahsin, was a former air force pilot and very experienced. Officials said that the aircraft was built in 2002 and last underwent thorough maintenance on December 22. Turkish media said that a trainee was among the three pilots on board.

Investigators quickly retrieved the black box flight recorder but left the three dead crew in the cockpit for several hours while they examined the scene for clues.

One of the first rescuers on the scene, John Ansgar, who was driving past when he saw the aircraft fall, said: “Fourteen people got out of the plane almost straight away. When I got inside all the oxygen masks were hanging down. There were people stuck in the back and we just couldn’t help them. There weren’t enough stretchers for everybody.”

A farmer’s tractor joined the emergency services, ferrying the injured and dead across the field in a trailer.

One passenger, Huseyin Sumer, said: “One of the hostesses ran towards me, screaming. There was panic as we left the aeroplane. We noticed that the aeroplane had split. We just threw ourselves out of the gap.”

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Breaking News: First Photo Of Rihanna's Injuries (Updated)

OMG! TMZ has just obtained a photo of Rihanna after the alleged attack by Chris Brown. It is not a pretty sight so we are not going to post the picture here. If you can muster the courage, click here to see evidence of Rihanna's injuries. Our hearts and prayers go to Rihanna. Get well soon.

Needless to say, the Internet community is shocked at this photo. Is this for real, many are wondering. When contacted, the LAPD declined to comment on the photo. "The LAPD by practice does not release photographs of victims of domestic violence. They are considered a protected class of people," Los Angeles police spokesman Sgt. Ronnie Crump said.

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'Ghost Rider' Part 2

Hey guys.. Would you think ghost rider will change his motorbike to this type of car?
Hehe.. Actually the picture was taken on the scene area Section 17/2 Petaling Jaya , Selangor... Caused Unknown.. :)

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Between heroes and bright sparks

The Kugan incident is a sensitive issue. It is not right for the police to use any form of brutality on its detainees. This is irrespective of race or religion. It was good that the police had managed to recover 13 cars from its interogation of Kugan. This would have crippled the syndicate involved. It would have saved millions from the insurance industry and this success would assure those in the insurance industry to have their jobs especially in the current situation. This is one part of the case.

The other side is the allegation that Kugan was heavily assaulted that caused his death. This could only be verified by a post mortem. Since the first one was said to be doubtful, the second one is being conducted while this post is typed.

The raid at the Serdang hospital was totally uncalled for. Instead of advising the relatives and friends of the deceased, 2 Deputy Ministers who were present had added strength to the raiders. This had never happened anywhere in this country and it is against the law. The 2 Deputy Ministers should have advised the group against doing it and they, especially T. Murugiah who is the Public Complaints Bureau so-called head who should have taken the complaint and requested the relevant authorities [AG/IGP] to allow a second post-mortem. A complaint should be intelligently handled if he knows his job well. But it seems emotions based on color blinded him.

The body was not going to be cremated the next hour by the police. The body was going to be given back to the families, hence there was no reason for the raid. The second post-mortem could have been done soon after. There was no rush whatsoever. T. Murugiah knew that but instead wanted to play with his emotions.

T. Murugiah seemed to seek cheap publicity whenever he can and outshadowing his own Minister and also the PPP President. We can still remember the bouquet of flowers he gave to Teresa Kok after she alleged to have been given dog food while in detention, only to be proven as a lie later and later she admitted the fact.

There are many complaints affecting the Indian community, some of which had been highlighted by Hindraf. As a Deputy Minister who is so proud as being in-charge of public complaints, he should assist the Indian community in their woes - their economic issues, their jobs and other community issues. These are issues that if handled intelligently by T.Murugiah would help solve a lot of the Indian community issues like getting business licences, further studies, decent homes, decent livelihood and many, many more. But no! He only wants to be involved in issues that he could politicised for his selfish needs only to 'show' the world that he is a hero. To him there is no purpose highlighting issues that could not enhance his image and status. This is all political selfishness!

Now he wants to sue the Selangor CPO for the press release made about the case. He should also sue the IGP and the hospital attendant who lodged the police report for the intrusion. To me, he should sue himself!

What would T. Murugiah do when robbers enters his house and other than robbing him and his family, they cause serious injuries to his family? Call Teresa Kok? Call Kugan's family?

Crime is increasing day by day. Rather than bashing the police, T. Murugiah should be fair to both parties - Kugan's family and the police. Even though Kugan is innocent until proven guilty, the fact remained that he was the one arrested, not you or me and it was not you or me who led the police to recover the 13 stolen cars. Of course killing a detainee is not right but at least the police had rid of a suspect involved in such cases and gave us car owners a sense of security when driving our cars.

When crime goes up, everybody points the fingers at the police. But they are quick to defend the criminals when something goes wrong when handled by the police. The criminals are laughing, the police are crying.

So don't blame the police if the crime goes up and the solving rate goes down the drain and the criminals are more brave and daring. Blame it on yourselves and all the so-called cheap seeking heroes and bright sparks. The police need only to do the needful [strictly to the last word of the law and regulations] to solve a crime and need not go all out day and night to solve it. Then we can see the fun how T. Murugiah is going to assist the public in solving crime.

No policeman would risk their career and families just to help reduce crimes if the public including politicians, SUHAKAM, etc seem to always side the criminals. No policeman wants to go to jail. Criminals love to go to jail because that is part of their job description and occupational hazard. Even though the police are paid to do the job, how can you measure their productivity? Crime goes up police not doing their job? It is easier said than done.

Continue bashing the police day and night and later, we will regret our actions when criminals roam freely and Malaysia becomes a high crime country. No tourist, no business, nothing. What is in store for our children and great grand children? We should make friends with the police [even how bad some may be] instead of siding criminals who are not only lazy to find a decent job but very dangerous. There are ways to be fair to all - police and criminals - but there must not be any perception among the criminals to think they are always protected by the law and the politicians. More protection should be given to the police, not to the criminals. Give it a thought and tell me I am wrong.

So Dato' Khalid Abu Bakar, Tan Sri Musa and all good policemen - continue to do your good work! Get rid of corrupted and arrogant cops and don't give an inch to government politicians who behave like heroes based on color and creed.

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Female Passenger Killed - Kelisa Crashed Into Drain - Menggatal Sabah

A female passenger of a Kelisa died when the car she was in crashed into a drain at Km 17, Jalan Tuaran Lama, at 2.30pm, Sunday.

The victim, the male driver in his 40s and two teenagers seated at the back were heading towards Tuaran from Menggatal when the mishap occurred during heavy rain.

The driver and the teenagers, who were injured, were sent to hospital.

Sergeant Lim and Inspector Hanif were at the scene to investigate.

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Bad days on the 1st day of CNY...26January09

What a BAD days on CNY!!
Let the picture story everything....


Fishing Competition .. :)



Free car wash service available Here.. :)



This is BAD.. Who started the fire? Just A Few Meters from Petrol Stn! Stupid!



Bonnet Blind - How this thing could Happen?? Too much speed meh??..



U can pay to appoint contractor at least RM50 to cut down the tree rather than pay for repairing the mess made by the tree itself. hehehe

Enough for now.. did u got any great picture? Please leave me ur comment. I will follow up to ur link! Happy Chinese New Year!

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