NewsSelangor police have set up a special investigation team to probe Sunday's assault on Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to Malaysia Ibrahim Sahib Ansar at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), New Straits Times reported. "Following the incident, police have set up a special investigation team and between 5pm Sunday and 7am yesterday (Monday), they have managed to trace and arrest five suspects. He said police are also looking into the backgrounds of individuals and organisations who lodged 47 reports against former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit in Malaysia the report said.. The probe is to, among others, determine if there were any affiliations between the complainants and the Sri Lankan Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organisation. When asked on why there were no security details assigned to provide protection to the envoy at KLIA, he said police was not informed of Ibrahim's plan to send a Sri Lankan minister to the airport.

Source: Sunday Times September 06, 2016 03:11 UTC