Special team set up to track policeman's killers

"The special team will take over the investigation and detain the suspects considered to be violent and aggressive.

"We are still gathering information and intelligence to identify the suspects involved," Perak police chief, Datuk Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani told reporters at the Tactical Police Headquarters for the Teluk Intan parliamentary seat by-election Friday.

In the 1.15pm incident, Lance Corporal Mohd Azuan Abdullah, 25, a member of the Kerian district police headquarters' Motorcycle Patrol Unit, died at the scene when the motorcycle he was on was rammed by the robbers's car, while his colleague was seriously injured.

Earlier, the criminals were believed to have robbed a cigarette van at the Bagan Serai-Alor Pongsu road.