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Cops identify students in Kota Tinggi school assault
KOTA TINGGI: Police have identified the five students
who beat up one of their Form One schoolmates with a chair in a secondary
school here - thanks to a mobile phone video footage.
OCPD Supt Jamaluddin Md Yusoff said the five would be picked up soon.
"We have recovered the cell-phone with the footage," he said
here yesterday.
The attack has received world-wide attention as the footage was uploaded
onto a website which hosts video clips purportedly showing the entire
attack, which lasted four minutes.
The footage was supporsedly recorded by one of the assailants.
Supt Jamaluddin said the incident was believed to have occurred on June
16.
The victim's father only lodged a police report on Friday,when a teacher
confiscated the mobile phone after catching several students watching
the footage.
Poloce have classified the case as rioting under Section 148 of the Penal
Code.
He was sent for a medical check-up at the Kota Tinggi Hospital.
He urged those who had suffered similar incidents to come forward to the
poloce as soon as possible.
State exective councillor Zainal Abidin Osman said he was waiting for
a report from the state education department on the matter.
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