Off-duty police crash into Malaysia PM residence | Inquirer News

Off-duty police crash into Malaysia PM residence

/ 12:27 PM May 20, 2012

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KUALA LUMPUR – A car with five off-duty policemen on board crashed into the Malaysian prime minister’s official residence, reports and an official said Sunday.

The five sustained mostly minor injuries in the pre-dawn crash Saturday at Prime Minister Najib Razak’s residence in the sprawling administrative capital of Putrajaya, the New Straits Times daily and Bernama news agency reported.

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Traffic police were investigating the incident, they said. The group were traveling in a Proton belonging to one of the five, the Times added.

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“Initial investigations reveal that the victims, all in their early 20s, were off-duty and had gone sightseeing,” the paper quoted Kuala Lumpur city chief Mohmad Salleh as saying.

A police official confirmed the incident but could not give further details.

Najib was not at the premises as he was on an official visit to the US.

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