KUALA LUMPUR: Police arrested two more security personnel, including a member of the Royal Malaysian Navy, who were allegedly involved in aiding militants in the country.
The suspects were arrested in separate operations conducted by the Special Branch's Counter-Terrorism Division (SB-CTD) in Kuala Kangsar, Perak and Sandakan, Sabah on Wednesday and Friday, respectively.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said in a raid in Kuala Kangsar, police arrested a 46-year-old Rela member and seized a homemade rifle alongside 433 bullets.
He said the man was suspected to be involved in making homemade firearms and supplying bullets to militant members, who went for a shooting practice at a location in Gunung Arang Para, Kampung Nyior Ketior in Kuala Kangsar in December last year.
"On Friday, police arrested a Navy personnel, aged 29, in Sandakan.
"We believed that he had helped in smuggling in a suspected militant member into Sandakan from Southern Philippine on June 11," he said in a statement received today.
Khalid said SB-CTD operatives had also raided a house in Shah Alam, Selangor today.
Police suspected that the house might have been used as a 'safehouse' and transit location for members of foreign militant groups, who have links with the local militants.
He said the suspects were detained on suspicion of involvement in terrorism under the Penal Code and would be investigated under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012.