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Police initiateprobe
by Charles [email protected]
KUALA LUMPUR: Police haveinitiated investigations into
theSunsfront-page report yesterday whichshowed photographs of
rescuers atthe Bukit Antarabangsa landslidepurportedly scouring
through adamaged bungalow after searchand rescue operations were
calledoff for the day.
Selangor police chief Datuk DCPKhalid Abu Bakar said police
will
meet the owner of the damagedhouse, K.Thanarajah, whose wife
CPO KHALID TO GET TO BOTTOMOF PHOTOS SHOWING RESCUERSSCOURING
DAMAGED BUNGALOW
10 sendrop in
fuel pricesKUALA LUMPUR: Petrol and dieselprices have been
further reduced by10 sen a litre from today.
In announcing the reduction yesterday, Prime Minister DatukSeri
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi saidthe RON 97 petrol will be sold atRM1.80 a
litre from RM1.90 and RON92 petrol at RM1.70 from RM1.80.
Diesel will be sold at RM1.70 alitre from RM1.80, he said in a
state-ment. This is the seventh time thegovernment has lowered fuel
pricessince August. The last revision wason Dec 3.
The fuel price cut was in tandemwith the drop in crude oil price
in theworld market.
Also effective today, the priceof subsidised petrol and diesel
forfishermen has been slashed by 13
sen a litre to RM1.30 from RM1.43. Bernama
Dr S. Yogeswari was killed inthe disaster and his cousin
RaviPoobalan who took the photos torecord their statements over
theincident.
It is learnt that Thanarajah andRavi will meet investigators at
theBukit Antarabangsa police beattoday.
We want to know what exactlywas happening and if at all thereare
any discrepancies in the searchand rescue, I will not tolerate
thingslike this. I give my word that no onewill be spared and stern
action willbe taken if at all there is any truthin the report. But
let us investigate
first, he told theSunyesterday.Khalid said there were only
three reports out of the 207 lodgedso far which alleged theft
byaffected houseowners and the caseswere under probe. He said
therewere also two other reports fromresidents who alleged looting
basedon hearsay and rumours.
When we asked thecomplainants from whom theyheard these claims,
they wereunable to say. We need to knowwho is in the know of any
incidentsof looting as only then can weproceed with the probe to
nab theculprits, if at all there is any.
However, it is not proper toaccuse rescuers of looting
justbecause they are at the landslidescene. They are SAR
personnel,where else can they be? Whenthey search for a missing
person,
they have to look into every nookand corner. In such a
catastrophicdisaster, there is no saying wherethe remains of a
victim can be, hesaid.
Khalid said that Thanarajahshould have lodged a police reporton
the matter soon after it tookplace as this would have enabled amore
efficient probe.
I am not against him going tothe media with the matter. That
ishis right, but he should have cometo us soon after what he
saw.
He has my contact numberand could have called me directly.I
would have looked into itimmediately after his call, saidKhalid,
adding that engineerThanarajah had lodged a policereport only on
the damage tohis house to date and that policeinitiated a probe on
his latestclaims based on the front pagereport in theSun.
Insult Iraqi-style ...President George Bushs pressconference
during a farewell visitto Iraq on Sunday drew a strongresponse from
an Iraqi journalistwho shouted in Arabic this isa goodbye kiss from
the Iraqipeople, dog, and hurled his shoes.One of the shoes sailed
over thepresidents head and slammed intothe wall behind him and he
had toduck to miss the other one.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki,who was standing next to
Bush,tried to block the second shoewith his arm. Throwing shoes
atsomebody is a supreme insult inthe Middle East.
The journalist was leapt onby Iraqi security officials and
USsecret service agents and draggedfrom the room screaming
andstruggling.
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