KL police hunt baby-selling gang

KL police hunt baby-selling gang

MALAYSIA: Malaysian police are hunting for a suspected Indonesian baby-selling gang after a two-week-old girl was snatched at gun- point from her Indonesian mother, a newspaper said on Tuesday.

The five men who abducted the infant on Friday in Johor, Malaysia's southern state neighboring Singapore, also took cash and jewelry worth around 3,600 ringgit (US$950) from its mother, The Star daily reported.

The mother, who went to report the abduction to police, was arrested after being found to be an illegal immigrant.

"I have directed...a manhunt for the five robbers, whom we believe to be Indonesians as well," the Star quoted Johor police chief Musa Hassan as saying.

"We have not ruled out the possibility that the men might be involved in a baby-selling syndicate," he added.-Reuters