Forestry staff in coma after bashing by poachers

Daily Express
April 24, 2009


Kota Kinabalu: The Forestry Department has been forced to engage the
services of a security firm with armed personnel following a retaliatory
attack by a group of suspected illegal hunters earlier this month.


The attack, involving a group of about 20 men, armed with machetes,
brass knuckles, hockey sticks, samurai swords, rambo knives and sticks,
among others, occurred at the Ulu Segama-Malua District Forestry Office
Base Camp at Sungai Kawag, Ulu Segama Forest Reserve, Lahad Datu at
about 9pm on April 2.


Sabah Forestry Department Director Datuk Sam Mannan said the one-hour
incident left District Forestry Officer Indra Sunjoto seriously injured
and unconscious.
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