Seven teen girls taken to lock-up after name-calling leads to fight
Wednesday, 30 Oct 20195:37 PM MYT
By STEPHANIE LEE
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KOTA KINABALU: Name-calling resulting in a fight landed seven students in lock-up on Tuesday (Oct 29).
The seven teenage girls, aged between 14 and 17 from Kg Panji and Kg Pisang in Lahad Datu, had, prior to the 5.30pm incident, met up to talk about some issues and misunderstandings among them.
It is learnt that some girls from Kg Pisang had accused those from Kg Panji of being undocumented and said they always checked into hotels.
The girls from Kg Panji were angry and had called those who bad-mouthed them to meet up.
Lahad Datu OCPD Asst Comm Nasri Mansor said after meeting up and arguing, the girls started fighting with each other.
He said someone had taken a video of them fighting and shared it on Facebook.
“Following the incident, we arrested seven girls to facilitate investigations into rioting, ” he said, adding that no one was seriously injured in the incident.
ACP Nasri said the girls have been remanded and he urged other suspects involved in the fight to come forward to assist investigations.
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