SINGAPORE: Singapore has tightened security after an attack on a police station in neighboring Malaysia by a man with suspected ties to an Al-Qaeda-linked group, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Tuesday.
Two police officers were killed and another injured by the machete-wielding attacker on Friday in Malaysia’s southern Johor state, near the narrow waterway separating the country from Singapore.
The man, whose father is a member of Southeast Asia-based terror network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), was shot dead by the injured policeman.
“Such an attack, just across our borders, is a grim reminder that the threat of terrorism remains high,” said Wong, Singapore’s newly elected PM.
(AFP)
