KOTA KINABALU: The person who ran amok inside a surau on the Kota Kinabalu Worldwide Airport right here on Wednesday (Nov 3) has been apprehended.
The suspect, a 47-year-old native who was present process psychiatric remedy and on medicine, had additionally used a knife to threaten those that wished to wish within the surau at about 2.30pm.
Kota Kinabalu OCPD ACP Mohd Zaidi Abdullah stated the person was reported to have gone to the prayer room and began pointing and swinging his knife at passers-by.
As quickly as policemen arrived, they tried to coax him to let go of the weapon and to relax, he stated.
“Policemen have been compelled to behave quick to get him to cease his harmful act. One among our males was injured within the course of,” he stated.
ACP Zaidi stated the suspect was later caught, whereas the policeman who obtained a minimize following his try to cease the suspect from hurting anybody obtained outpatient remedy at a close-by clinic.
Preliminary investigations discovered that the suspect had run amok as he didn’t take his medication.
They discovered an OKU card on the suspect, in addition to an appointment card for Hospital Mesra Bukit Padang, a hospital which, amongst others, treats sufferers with psychological sickness.
