Searching for clues: Policemen investigating the arson case at the Barisan operations centre in Parit 9.
SEKINCHAN: A bottle of gasoline was hurled at a Barisan Nasional operations centre in Parit 9, Sungai Leman here, causing a small fire.
Sungai Besar OCPD Supt Noor Mushar Mohd said police found the bottle at the centre when they went to check the premises following a report lodged at 4.50am here yesterday.
“There was an attempt to burn the place. There were scorch marks along the outer wall,” he said yesterday.
A party flag and an Election Commission (EC) banner telling voters that the voting centre had been moved to SR Agama Parit 9 were also burnt, he added.
Supt Noor Mushar said police were investigating the case, adding that so far, there was no suspect.
“We will make sure that the culprit is caught. We urge all parties not to resort to such stupid tactics,” he said, adding that the fire was not serious.
Kampung Parit 9 federal village committee chairman Zulkafli Hassan, who lodged the police report, said he received a call at about 4am that the centre was on fire.
“Fortunately, some of the villagers were able to douse the fire,” he said.
Ismail Sutan, who owns the land on which the community hall housing the centre was built, said no such incident had ever happened before.
EC enforcement officer Mohamad Marwan Ahmad Tajun said he would hand over a report to the commission's headquarters in Putrajaya.
“This is a police case and we will leave it to them to investigate,” he said.
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