The female suspect being escorted off to CPS.
MIRI: A gas tank seized in a police operation yesterday that saw nine people arrested could be the tell-tale sign of a lead into the investigation of murdered Sabah student Mu Tshun Vui.
In yesterday morning’s raids by high-profile Miri police from D9 (serious crimes unit) of IPK, a woman and a Bangladeshi man were among the nine arrested on suspicion of the recent house break-ins in Senadin.
Miri police chief ACP Mun Kock Keong, when contacted yesterday, confirmed the arrests made, but was tight-lipped on a possible lead to the murder case.
When asked by media if the suspects nabbed were in connection with the robbery-cum-murder incident of the private university student on Jan 4 at Jalan Jati Senadin, ACP Mun refused to comment further.
“At the moment, we (police) are investigating the case under house-break-in section…”, said Mun.
The woman is said to be the girlfriend of one of the suspects under arrest.
All suspects in their 20s and 30s were nabbed in different houses at two locations — Tudan and Permyjaya.
In the operation that started from 7am yesterday, police also seized a gas cylinder, believed to be the one stolen from the murder victim’s house, and three motorcycles.
The Bangladeshi had led police to the recovery of the gas tank, which was found in a gas cylinder supplier’s store at Taman Tunku.
Sources believe the suspects had sold the gas cylinder for RM70 cash.
All suspects have been detained under police custody at Miri Central Police Station.
On Jan 4, the body of the student, identified as Mu Tshun Vui, 19, from Sandakan Sabah, was found lying motionless in a pool of blood in his rented double-storey house at Jalan Jati 1, Senadin, in an apparent robbery cum murder.
Ever since, police have been hot on the trail for the culprits involved.