Police on trail of gang that robbed goldsmith shop

KUALA LUMPUR: Police have identified the armed gang suspected of robbing a goldsmith shop at a shopping centre in Persiaran Anggun, Taman Anggun, Rawang near here on Friday.

Gombak police chief ACP Ali Ahmad said the group of six men were identified from initial investigations through closed-circuit television footage obtained from the place of the incident.

“Police are now tracking down the criminals,” he said in a statement here yesterday.

In the 6.45pm incident, all the suspects came in three Yamaha 125 motorcycles and three of them entered the premises while another three waited outside.

The three men armed with hammers and a pistol broke four glass showcases and one of them fired a shot at the ceiling before fleeing with jewellery worth more than RM1.5 million.

In an unrelated incident, a Form two student drowned while on a picnic with his family at a waterfall in Kampung Kenayat near Gerik yesterday.

A search and rescue team retrieved the body of Muhammad Afiq Ishak, of Felda Papulot, Lenggong, from the bottom of the waterfall in Lata Kulim at 2.15pm.

Gerik police chief Supt Ismail Che Isa said the 14-year-old student of the Pengkalan Hulu Mara Junior Science College had gone to the waterfall for fishing and swimming with 15 other family members about three hours earlier.

He said the victim’s father told the police the student was swimming in the deeper area of the waterfall when strong water currents caused him to disappear underwater.

“The father and several others went to his rescue but to no avail,” he said in a statement here. — Bernama