MORE Pics – 3 HALF PAST SIX ROBBERS – All Foreigners GUNNED Down Near IPOH. 4 Gang Robbers Eliminated in 2nd ATTEMPTED Failed ROBBERY

ABOVE: ADA EMASJEWEL Shop(in Pengkalan Emas Mall, outskirts of IPOH) they tried to rob but fled empty handed when fired upon.

Below: In their haste and panic, they dropped one of the weapons in front of shop

Perak Criminal Investigation Department chief Datuk A. Paramasivam was literally laughing when commenting on this group of inept robbers. The 4-Gang members were small timers doing break-ins when they decided to elevate themselves to do bigger jobs.

In their first big attempt, to rob a jeweler’s shop in Bidor, in May one of their member was shot and killed and in this second attempt, the remaining three were eliminated. Apparently they took aim but too slow to pull the trigger.

In Perak 3 Robbers armed with two revolvers were shot dead by police who hunted them down after their attempt to rob a jewelry shop in Pegalan, nearby Ipoh on Friday. The three believed to be foreign nationals all in their thirties were fatally shot in an oil palm plantations when they were corned by the police in Simpang Pulai..

Perak CID Chief said the robbers had earlier stormed a jewelry shop at about 1 pm but fled empty handed when they were fired upon by the security guard and wounding one of them. They escaped in a dark blue Proton Perdana. The Police were alerted and spotted the vehicle and gave chased.

ABOVE:The oil palm dirt road in Simpang Pulai, 10 km South of Ipoh, where they were cornered and shot dead

They entered an oil palm estate in Simpang Pulai and when they realized they had no chance of escape, pulled out their revolvers and aim at the police. The Police were faster and killed all the 3 criminals.

From the vehicle the police recovered two fully loaded revolver, mask, gloves and hammers.. Police believed it was the same group who tried to rob a jewelry shop in Bidor on May 15

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IPOH: Their strike rate was poor by any measure. And now, after two botched robberies, the entire gang has been gunned down.

They were a gang specialising in break-ins, and linked to at least 34 burglaries. In May, the gang decided to go "big time" and attempted to rob a goldsmith shop in Bidor.
The remaining three members attempted a second robbery at a goldsmith shop at the Pengkalan Emas Mall, here, yesterday afternoon. However, it proved to be fatal as all three were gunned down after the botched robbery.

The robbers, armed with a revolver, a parang and a hammer, walked into the store at 1.20pm, not realising that there was an armed plainclothes guard seated at the back of the shop.

As soon as one of the robbers smashed a display cabinet and the closed-circuit television camera, the guard opened fire, injuring two of them. The robbers fled, but a short while later, they were gunned down by police at an oil palm estate near Simpang Pulai.
The stolen Proton Perdana Car they tried to escape, Above
Below; The blood stained in the dirt picked up by the tyres

Perak Criminal Investigation Department chief Datuk A. Paramasivam said a police team led by DSP Sahadan Jaafar from the Perak police headquarters, spotted the robbers escaping in a blue Proton Perdana.
ABOVE: The Perak CID boss showing one of the revolvers seized

There was a five-kilometre chase which ended in the oil palm estate. Paramasivam said the police team surrounded the car, and when the suspects were spotted with revolvers, police opened fire, killing all three.

"If you point your weapon at me, I don’t wait for you to shoot. I’ll shoot you in self-defence ," he said. Paramasivam said police found two fully loaded .38 revolvers, each with six bullets, two ski masks, a travelling bag and a cane from the car.

ABOVE: The back seat of the Perdana Car where 2 of the criminals wete killed

A parang, a hammer and a bag were also seized from the jewellery outlet.

According to Paramasivam, police believe that the three men were members of the same gang which had attempted to rob the jewellery shop in Bidor in May, when one of them was shot dead.

"This gang was wanted for at least 34 house break-ins in the State," he said, adding that the gang had been operating since early this year.

He refused to release the identities of the suspects but said they were foreigners. The car used by the gang is also believed to be a stolen vehicle.

One of the gang members was gunned down by police.

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