KOTA TINGGI, Oct 27 — Police arrested a 41-year-old man suspected of hacking a settler to death with an axe at Felda Lok Heng Selatan last night.
Johor police chief Datuk Ab Rahaman Arsad said the suspect was arrested by a joint team from the state contingent and district police at a palm oil plantation here at 10.26am today.
“Investigators believe that the axe was the murder weapon,” he said in a statement today.
Ab Rahaman added that background checks revealed that the local suspect had six previous criminal and drug-related offences.
