SINGAPORE: Singapore has tightened safety after an assault on a police station in neighboring Malaysia by a person with suspected ties to an Al-Qaeda-linked group, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong mentioned on Tuesday.
Two cops had been killed and one other injured by the machete-wielding attacker on Friday in Malaysia’s southern Johor state, close to the slim waterway separating the nation from Singapore.
The person, whose father is a member of Southeast Asia-based terror community Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), was shot useless by the injured policeman.
“Such an assault, simply throughout our borders, is a grim reminder that the specter of terrorism stays excessive,” mentioned Wong, Singapore’s newly elected PM.
“Now we have stepped up safety measures, together with at our checkpoints,” he mentioned on Fb, urging the general public to instantly report “any suspicious individuals or actions”.
“Our safety companies will proceed to observe international and regional safety developments carefully.”
JI has been blamed for a collection of lethal bomb assaults within the area together with the 2002 bombings within the Indonesian resort island of Bali that killed 202 folks, together with 88 Australians.
Malaysia’s residence minister Saifuddin Nasution mentioned the suspect appeared to have acted alone regardless of his father’s hyperlinks to JI, native media reported.
Two cops had been killed and one other injured by the machete-wielding attacker on Friday in Malaysia’s southern Johor state, close to the slim waterway separating the nation from Singapore.
The person, whose father is a member of Southeast Asia-based terror community Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), was shot useless by the injured policeman.
“Such an assault, simply throughout our borders, is a grim reminder that the specter of terrorism stays excessive,” mentioned Wong, Singapore’s newly elected PM.
“Now we have stepped up safety measures, together with at our checkpoints,” he mentioned on Fb, urging the general public to instantly report “any suspicious individuals or actions”.
“Our safety companies will proceed to observe international and regional safety developments carefully.”
JI has been blamed for a collection of lethal bomb assaults within the area together with the 2002 bombings within the Indonesian resort island of Bali that killed 202 folks, together with 88 Australians.
Malaysia’s residence minister Saifuddin Nasution mentioned the suspect appeared to have acted alone regardless of his father’s hyperlinks to JI, native media reported.
