It was a terror attack in Malaysia after all.
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Malaysian police have confirmed the involvement of Daesh in a grenade explosion at an entertainment center in capital Kuala Lumpur last week, marking the extremist movement’s first attack in the Southeast Asian country.
Khalid said among them are the two men responsible for hurling the grenade at Movida.
“Their other targets were the country’s senior leaders, the police and judges”, he told a press conference at Bukit Aman here.
Khalid also confirmed that among the 15 arrested were two cops.
Khalid said two male suspects were arrested last week and the police are searching for another two suspects believed to be involved in the June 28 attack.
The June 28 bombing at Movida at IOI Boulevard, which injured eight people, was carried out by locals who were directly instructed by Daish (IS) militant Muhamad Wanndy Mohamad Jedi from Syria, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said.
“The two who threw the grenade were picked up on July 1 at a factory in Port Klang where they worked”.
Two Malaysian men have now been arrested in connection with the incident, while two more suspects were on the run.
Eight people, including a woman from China, were injured in the blast.
In 2014, police said they had foiled an IS-inspired plot to bomb pubs, discos and a Malaysian brewery of Danish beer producer Carlsberg, arresting more than a dozen people.
He said of the 15, aged between 19 and 52, seven were nabbed in Kedah, four in Selangor, two in Kuala Lumpur, one in Penang and one in Malacca.
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“Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak contacted me and has given me very strict instructions about this”, he said.
