KOTA KINABALU: The High Court here today heard that a team of VAT69 snipers prevented Sulu militants from entering sectors B, C and D of a close reconnaissance operation in Kampung Tanduo, Lahad Datu when a skirmish erupted there on March 1 last year. Corporal Shahril Afiza Zahari said it meant that he and his team played a role in providing cover for their colleagues involved in the skirmish. During the incident, he said he and his team were 400-500 metres from the well and drain which supplied water to the militants who had invaded the village, where he saw 20-30 of them bathing and taking water with some...
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