IPOH: The police have arrested a man for allegedly sending offensive comments on Facebook about the policemen who were killed in the attack on the Ulu Tiram police station in May this year.
Tapah police chief Naim Asnawi said the man, aged 25, was arrested at a house in Masai, Johor, at 8pm last Thursday.
He said the arrest followed a report lodged on Aug 29 by the family of Ahmad Azza Fahmi Azhar, one of the policemen killed in the incident.
"The police confiscated a mobile phone belonging to the suspect who works in a factory,"he said in a statement.
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In the Ulu Tiram police station attack on May 17, Ahmad Azza Fahmi, 22, and Syafiq Ahmad Said, 24, were killed, while a police officer, Hasif Roslan, 38, was injured by two gunshots to the shoulder and hip.
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