JOHOR BAHRU, May 20 — The two policemen killed in an attack on the Ulu Tiram police station on May 17 have been declared martyrs who died in the cause of God.
Johor Islamic Religious Affairs Committee chairman Mohd Fared Mohd Khalid said the deaths of Ahmad Azza Fahmi Azhar, 22, and Muhamad Syafiq Ahmad Said, 24, were considered martyrdom as they were protecting the country.
“The Johor Fatwa Committee has decided both of them are martyrs in the afterlife. Their funeral arrangements were completed with the four obligatory rituals — bathing, shrouding, funeral prayers and burying,” Fared said in a statement today.
He said the committee prays for the souls of both of them to be blessed with mercy, love, and God’s blessings, and that the Royal Malaysia Police remain steadfast in carrying out their duties to protect the country from various threats.
Regarding the handling of the body of the 21-year-old male suspect who was shot dead in the attack, Fared said the suspect’s remains should be bathed, shrouded and prayed over at the hospital or at his family’s home only, not in a mosque or surau.
He said the suspect’s body should be buried in a designated cemetery, far from other graves.
In the 2.45am incident on May 17, Azza Fahmi and Syafiq died after being attacked by a masked man armed with a machete, while fellow cop Mohd Hasif Roslan was shot and reported to be in stable condition after treatment at Sultan Ismail Hospital here.
On May 18, Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said the suspect was believed to have acted alone and had no links to terrorist groups.
— Bernama
