KUALA LUMPUR: A teenager was injured when police opened fire in self-defence during a robbery at a 24-hour cyber cafe at Jalan Genting Klan early yesterday.The shots hit the suspect on both legs in the 3.30am robbery, Sentul police chief ACP Zakaria Pagan said.
He said at the time of the robbery, two plainclothes policemen, who were in a crime prevention operation, were at the premises.
“The policemen were in the toilet. When they came out, they saw seven men armed with a sword, saw and knives at the premises.
“Three of the suspects were at the counter and four others kept watch at the door,” he told a media conference yesterday.
He said at the time of the robbery, there were 10 customers and a manager at the cafe.
The robbers ordered them, including the two policemen, to keep quiet, while the three suspects who were at the counter ordered the manager to hand over the money, totalling RM1,300, which was in the cash register.
It was then that one of the policemen shouted “police” resulting in one of the suspect to swing a saw he was holding at the former, forcing him to fire three shots in self-defence, he added.
Zakaria said two of the shots hit one of the suspects on both legs, while the other suspects, as well as the customers, fled the scene.
He said the suspects fled in a BMW car with another accomplice at the wheel, and on a motorcycle.
The injured suspect, aged 17, was sent to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital and reported to be in stable condition, he added. — Bernama