EUROPEAN SERGEANT KILLED
TUSJKKOKIST THROWS GRENADE (Rec. 10.30) SINGAPORE, March 3. During a screening operation by a police team in the Bentong Area of Pahang, a European sergeant was killed by a suspected terrorist, who suddenly broke away from the screening team. A police sentry, observing the breakaway of this Chinese, shot and wounded him, bringing him to the ground, but as the European sergeant approached to investigate, the wounded terrorist threw a concealed handgrenade, which exploded, killing the sergeant. Other pblice thereupon shot the terrorist dead.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 119, 4 March 1950, Page 5
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