Wednesday 14 March 2012

Malaysia police kill hostage taker at kindergarten

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A machete-wielding man who took 30 children and four teachers hostage for six hours in a Malaysian kindergarten has died after being shot by police, an official said Friday.

None of the captives was harmed during the tense hostage drama Thursday in the southern city of Muar in Johor state.

Muar police Chief Mohammed Nasir Ramli said Loi Hui Chung died in a hospital Thursday night, five hours after being shot in the head by a single bullet.

Loi, 40, was unemployed and had been previously detained in drug-related cases, Nasir said. Police are investigating whether he was the person who attacked and injured children outside two other …

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