SIBU: Police have detained nine people, aged between 16 and 42, to assist a probe into the murder of a 19-year-old who is believed to have been stabbed during a fight at a public park in Jalan Gambir here early today.
Sibu district police chief ACP Abang Zainal Abidin Abang Ahmad said all suspects were rounded up at several locations around Sibu between 10am and 4pm today following intelligence gathering and investigations by the Sibu police headquarters' Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
He said police received a report at about 2am regarding a brawl where the complainant was assaulted by a group of people.
"During the incident, a young man was believed to have been stabbed with a sharp weapon and was confirmed dead by a medical team from Sibu Hospital," he said in a statement.
