Housewife who wanted to ram car into voters arrested, says top cop
Bernama | June 1, 2018
IGP Mohamad Fuzi Harun says the woman had planned to ram her car into non-Muslim voters at a polling station on May 9.
Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun.
KUALA LUMPUR: Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun today revealed that police had arrested a housewife on election day on suspicion of planning to ram a car into voters at a polling station.
The 51-year-old woman, who was arrested by a Special Branch Counter-Terrorism squad in Puchong, had planned to ram the car into non-Muslim voters, he said in a statement.
He added that the woman, who was believed to be involved in a terrorist group, had also planned to ram a car loaded with gas cylinders, purportedly as explosives, into non-Muslim houses of worship.
Between March 27 and May 9, he said, police arrested 15 people aged between 17 and 51, including the housewife, on suspicion of being involved in terrorist groups, in police operations in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Johor, Kelantan and Sabah.
Six of those arrested were Malaysians, two were Filipino nationals with permanent resident status, and four were Filipino nationals. Police also nabbed a married couple from northern Africa and a Bangladeshi national, he added.
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