KOTA KINABALU: Nine people, including two locals, have been picked up in Beluran to probe into their possible links to the Sulu intrusion in Sabah.
The nine, including two women and seven men, were arrested separately at about 8pm on Tuesday and 10am on Wednesday.
Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib said the suspects, aged between the 20s and 50s, were detained under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma).
"They will be investigated under the special offences, and this brings the total number of suspects detained under the offence to 181 people," he said in a press conference at the Kepayan police headquarters here yesterday (Wednesday).
Hamza said the suspects were found with weapons, documents and about RM1,000 when they were arrested.
"There was, however, no exchange of gunfire when they were arrested," he added.
Hamza said investigations on the 32 foreigners arrested in a boat near Tambisan and the self-styled "Datuk Seri" Clarence Luing Karl @ Muhammad Khalil John L Karl, who was caught on April 5, were continuing.
Meanwhile, he denied that Filipinos were being abused by security forces in Sabah as claimed by Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chief Nur Misuari.
"They can say whatever they want but as far as we are concerned, no Filipino is being abused," he said.
"Even dead bodies of the Sulu gunmen were buried with dignity and according to religious rights. We don't even want to kill them if possible," he said.
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