KL's streets cleaned for NAM summit

KL's streets cleaned for NAM summit

MALAYSIA: Drug addicts and the homeless will be swept off the
streets of the Malaysian capital ahead of the upcoming Non-
Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, a top official said on Wednesday.

"We must rid the city of all negative elements," Mohmad Shaid
Mohamad Taufek, Kuala Lumpur mayor, said at the reopening of an
old jail that was refurbished at a cost of three million ringgit
(US$789,500).

Malaysian Police chief Norian Mai said Pudu prison, located in
the heart of the city, would house up to 1,000 drug addicts and
vagrants who would be cleared from the streets ahead of the NAM
summit.

Over the last three months, police have arrested 3,760 drug
addicts in Kuala Lumpur, he said.

The summit, to be held on Feb. 20 to Feb. 25, will bring
together leaders or their representatives from NAM's 114 member
states. --AFP