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Did the police walk into a trap in Semporna?

Inspector General of Police Ismail Omar says
his men may have been lured in by decoys
and fired upon as they entered the water village.
TAWAU: Police searching for a group of gunmen in Kampung Sri Jaya in the Simunul area in Semporna may have walked into a trap that was set for them.
According to sources, the gunmen appeared ready for the police raid and opened fire as the police were on the narrow single-plank walkways linking the various houses on stilts.
Six policemen, including an officer, and six unidentified gunmen were killed during the firefight that occurred around 7pm yesterday.
Police have encircled the village, one of many that are perched on stilts over the sea, to track down remaining gunmen.

Villagers beat gunman to death

A reporter on his way to an assignment in Kampung
Nihak Nihak about 30 kilometres from Semporna
saw the dead body of an armed man.
SEMPORNA: A man armed with a M16 rifle, believed to have been involved in an ambush which claimed the lives of five policemen at Kampung Sri Jaya, Siminul, Semporna last night, was beaten to death by a group of Kampung Senallang Lama villagers here.
The man has yet to be identified.
In the 7 am incident this morning, a big-sized man in his 50s, dressed in black and armed with a M16 rifle climbed down a hill and let off a few shots in the direction of the village.
Villager Abdul Hani Samaullah, 44, told Bernama that the man pierced the early morning calm by shouting,” I’m the one who shot the police last night.”

5 cops. 2 gunmen killed in Semporna ambush

LAHAD DATU, March 3 (Bernama) -- Five policemen, one of them an officer, were killed in an ambush by a group of armed men, two of whom were also killed, in Kampung Sri Jaya, Simunul, Semporna, Sabah, last night.
Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar said the incident occurred at 8 pm at the water village.
The policemen, from the Semporna District Police Headquarters, had been ordered to carry out an investigation at the village following a tip-off that there was a group of armed men there, he told a news conference here today.

5 anggota polis terbunuh di Semporna, 2 penjenayah ditembak mati: KPN

LAHAD DATU: Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Ismail Omar mengesahkan lima anggota polis terbunuh dalam kejadian tembakan di Semporna dan dua penjenayah ditembak mati ketika serbuan malam tadi. 

Sementara itu, polis turut menahan tiga penceroboh bersenjata dari Selatan Filipina di Kampung Tanduo, semalam ketika cuba keluar daripada kepungan pihak berkuasa.

Cop killed in Semporna, another injured in gunfight with militants

Special police force guard the area about 3km away from the
location where armed men are holding off, outside
Lahad Datu February 19, 2013. — Reuters file pic
KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 — A policeman was killed and another injured in a shootout with armed militants in Kampung Selamat, Semporna, last night after police said two others were wounded in a gunfight in nearby Pulau Simunul, three weeks after Filipino militants made an incursion into Sabah.
These incidents around Semporna are 150km away from Lahad Datu where there is still a tense standoff between Malaysian security forces and Filipino militants a day after 14 people were killed in a shootout.
State news agency Bernama reported that the Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Ismail Omar, confirmed the incident but refused to comment further.

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