The latest group of intruders who landed in Tanjung Labian arrived in civilian clothes and 'grouped up and put on their military fatigues', said Armed Forces chief Jeneral Zulkefli Mohd Zin.
SEMPORNA: More flash points have opened up on the east coast of Sabah. Reports have trickled in that Malaysian security forces are chasing multiple groups of invaders who have landed in support of their compatriots in Kampung Tanduo, about 160km from here.Armed Forces chief Jeneral Zulkifeli Mohd Zin said the intruders came in small boats over the last few days from the Southern Philippine island of Sibutu, just a 25-minute boat ride from Semporna where six policemen were killed in an ambush in Kampung Sri Jaya.
In an indication that the Malaysian-Philippine maritime border remains porous, he said the hopping distance between the two areas permitted such clandestine groups to infiltrate Sabah at will without detection.
Zulkifeli described the intruders as criminals but at the same time seemed to indicate that they were more than just that when he described how the intruders had taken pains to disguise themselves.
“I believe they came in civilian clothes and, upon entering Sabah, they grouped up and put on their military fatigues.
“We found two bags with civilian clothes,” he said, adding that investigators did not know when they entered the state.
The army and police are said to be mapping out a strategy to take back the seaside village of Kampung Tanduo from a group of armed men led by Agbimuddin Kiram, the younger brother of Jamalul Kiram III, the man widely acknowledged to be the sultan of Sulu who says Sabah belongs to his family.
Sightings of intruders in Kunak were confirmed when three armed men dressed in military fatigues similar to that worn by the Sulu group at Kampung Tanduo were arrested.
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