Cops detain rowdy youths gathered near Seafield temple
Minderjeet Kaur
-November 28, 2018 2:01 AM
Police arrested several youngsters after they ignored orders to disperse.POLICE ARREST PROTESTERS
SUBANG JAYA: Police have arrested several youngsters after they failed to abide by orders to disperse after they had gathered for several hours opposite the Sri Maha Mariamman temple in Seafield, USJ.
The youths were arrested around 1am.
A big group of youngsters started gathering opposite the temple from 10.30pm.Hundreds of rowdy youngsters on motorcycles had arrived at the scene about 10.30pm and gathered across the temple.
At the temple, a few youths and devotees were keeping a watchful eye.
Some of those who gathered opposite the Sri Maha Mariamman temple.
Some of those who gathered became rowdy.As the crowd grew bigger, more policemen were deployed to monitor the situation.
There is a heavy police presence at the temple.The police then ordered the youths to disperse. However, their orders were ignored and after almost three hours, the Light Security Force were seen approaching them with batons.
FRU personnel monitoring the situation.While many of the youngsters started to disperse, some stayed put and were arrested.
At least five were detained.
Wreckage of one of the cars that was torched early yesterday is towed away.Earlier the temple devotees held prayers for those who were injured in the last two days of violence.
Temple priest Jeya Kumar started the healing prayers for fireman Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim, 24, who is with the Fire and Rescue Department’s Emergency Medical Response Service (EMRS).
Police detaining those who refused to disperse.The prayers are also being held for two men in their 30s who sustained injuries in the violent scuffles that started in the early hours of Monday.
Police checking identification of one of the youngsters.The priest was also heard saying that the prayers were being offered to help those injured to heal quickly.
THE PROTESTERS
