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Bogus Malaysian cops tie up woman and kill her husband

Attackers also took two phones and cash

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By Sharanpal Singh Randhawa

An Indonesian woman was tied to a tree and watched in horror as five bogus policemen robbed and killed her husband at a hill near the Bukit Bintang Maya housing project in the Malaysian crowd of Sungai Petani.

State CID chief Senior Asst Comm Mior Farid Alathrash Wahid said they found the body of Myanmar national Min Tun Um, 54, with stab wounds on his abdomen, and his neck slashed..

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“The couple had been married for two years. The man was selling drinks at the project site.

“They were sleeping in a shed on the hill at about 9pm when the men came and claimed to be policemen.

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“The woman said she saw one of the men holding a weapon which looked like a parang and heard her husband scream,” he said yesterday.

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