Day 11 of Ops Daulat

Day 11 of Ops Daulat saw the fleeing of Sulu gang leader Azzimudie Kiram. Here are the happenings of the day:

- Sulu terrorist leader Azzimudie Kiram is believed to have fled from Lahad Datu said Armed Forces chief Tan Sri Zulkifeli Mohd Zin.

- Zulkifeli said Azzimudie has returned to his native Southern Philippines and that the security forces reached this conclusion after analysing the information received from intelligence.

- Meanwhile, Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib said the security forces has discovered three new graves in Kampung Tanduo.

- Hamza said the graves contained 15 dead Sulu gunmen’s bodies and were found within the vicinity of the big grave that was found 10 days ago.

- He said with this finding, the total number of the enemies that we have shot dead is now 61.

- He also said Malaysia will only give Philippines three days to make the decision whether they want the dead bodies back or otherwise.

- He said failure to so will result the bodies being buried according to the Islam way.

- Hamza said a total of 27 bodies have been brought out of the operation area so far.

- He said the police has arrested eight young men from Philippines who tried to enter Kampung Sungai Bilis by a speedboat.

- Hamza said the men were between 17 and 29 years old and were trying to enter Kampung Sungai Bilis around 12.15pm yesterday.

- He added that checks found that they had 300 empty jerrycans and 369,000 pesos (RM28,300) cash.