Two RI workers killed in Malaysia

Two RI workers killed in Malaysia

MALAYSIA: Two Indonesian migrant workers were stabbed to death during a clash between rival gangs of plantation workers in Malaysia, the national news agency reported on Monday.

Police arrested six suspects believed to have been involved in the fighting, which broke shortly after midnight on Sunday morning near a palm oil estate in the district of Miri in Sarawak, an eastern Malaysian state on Borneo island, said Miri police chief Ambrose Chung.

The victims were identified as Iwan Mappa, 25, and Apo, 19, Chung was quoted as saying by Bernama news agency.

Chung said police were investigating the cause of the clash.

A police spokesman in Miri contacted by telephone declined to comment. -- AP