Two officers killed in suspected JI attack on Malaysian police station | Police News

The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday morning in the southern state of Johor.

In Malaysia, two police officers were killed and one injured after a man believed to be part of the hardline Jemaah Islamiyah group stormed a police station.

The attack occurred in the early hours of Friday morning in the town of Ulu Tiram in the southern state of Johor as on-duty police attended to a couple who had said they wanted to make a statement about a two-year-old incident, Inspector General of Police said Razarudin Husain was quoted in the New Straits Times newspaper.

As the group chatted, the suspect arrived at the back of the station on a motorcycle and armed with a machete.

When an officer confronted the man, he struck with the machete, grabbed the police officer’s service revolver and shot the second officer.

Razarudin said investigators suspected that the man shot by a third officer, who was injured after being cut with the machete, was planning to seize weapons for an “yet-to-be-determined agenda.”

Razaurdin told Malaysian media that police searched the suspect’s house not far from the police station and found “numerous JI-related paraphernalia.” Five members of his family were arrested, including the suspect’s 62-year-old father, who police said was a “known JI member.” The two people who filed the police report were also arrested.

Other JI members living in the state bordering Singapore were also arrested, Malay Mail news agency quoted Razarudin as saying.

Jemaah Islamiyah is an al-Qaeda-affiliated group that aims to establish a radical Islamic state in Indonesia and throughout Southeast Asia.

At its height in the 2000s, JI is said to have had members from Indonesia to Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia and the Philippines and planned a series of deadly bombings, including the October 2002 Bali attack that killed more than 200 people.

Some of its most prominent leaders were Malaysians, including Noordin Muhammad Top, who served as a recruiter, strategist and financier for the group and was wanted for involvement in a series of attacks in Indonesia.

Noordin came from Johor and is said to have founded a religious school in Ulu Tiram.

JI is banned in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.