Six Man Fatally Shoot Dead By Malaysian Police October 1998

Name	Age	Date	Circumstance of death
Ramachandran Sitaraman Subramaniam. Kannapareddy Ravi Suppayah Ganesan Sinasamy Rajendran Subramaniam		October 13, 1998	The shootings occurred close to midnight on 3 October 1998 when, having received  information that drugs and guns were to be smuggled over the Thai border (no details of the identity, race or gender of the suspects being provided), two unmarked police vehicles ambushed a van carrying six persons. The leader of one of the police teams claimed that, just after police cars blocked the van at the front and right side, he heard shots and ordered his men to open fire. Within twenty seconds, 47 rounds had been fired killing all the passengers. The victims, all ethnic-Indian Malaysians, included government civil servants, a politician and members of the Citizens Volunteer Force.52 None had criminal records. The pathologist carrying out an autopsy noted that all the shots had been directed at the victim’s heads. No police officers were killed in the incident. Police reported they recovered firearms and bullets from the glove compartment of the van. No spent cartridges were found and no tests were conducted to ascertain if the firearms had been fired that evening.