The Borneo Post
27 January 2016
BINTULU: Police have opened two investigation papers
in connection with the fake ‘apai nyamun’ postings which went viral in the
social media recently.
The postings claimed that a few longhouse residents in
Bintulu, Tatau and Mukah had been snatched in two separate incidents for their heads
and organs which would be sold. […]
The Borneo Post
28 January 2016
MARUDI: Following rumours spread through the social
media, two primary school teachers lodge two police reports that a stranger,
feared to be a ‘penyamun’ (head hunter, had entered Rumah Man, a longhouse in
Sg Bakas, Beluru, in which they rented a house. […]
The Borneo Post
29 January 2016
Jacqueline Raphael
MIRI: Miri police chief DSP Junaidi Bujang warns
Mirians to stop spreading rumours that can cause unnecessary panic and chaos
among members of the public here.
The warning came after two car thieves who were
mistaken for ‘headhunters’ were badly beaten up by over 50 villagers in an
incident which took place at Batu Niah several days ago.
“The men were badly beaten up and badly injured in the
incident because the villagers thought they were head and organ hunters. But
they were just car thieves who had just stolen a Kancil.
“They caught up with a group of villagers while
running away from the police, and this group beat them up. They managed to
escape from the group and ran back to the police who immediately arrested
them,” he said. […]
