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Photos And Video: 2nd Day OPS Daulat Update, March 6

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Today is the second day of OPS Daulat; please click here for In Photos: OPS Daulat Lahad Datu – March 5, 2013.

Please click here for the latest update on OPS Daulat – Day 3, March 7

NST reported that at 8 p.m., the IGP Tan Sri Ismail Omar said shooting incidents between the security forces and terrorist groups were reported in three locations in the village of Tanjung Batu, Lahad Datu this afternoon as the security forces continued their sweeping and mopping operations.

The IGP warned that the Sulu gunmen who escaped the army bombardment on Tuesday are now masquerading as local residents to get away from the police.

At 4.35 p.m., Defence minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi showed photographs of bodies of 7 terrorists killed in yesterday’s OPS Daulat in Kampung Tanduo in Lahad Datu.

Very early this morning, a Sulu intruder was killed during after he opened fire at security forces forcing the ground team to retaliate. 

And in the early afternoon, four suspected terrorists were arrested by the security forces at Kampung Airport near Kem Sri Wangsa, Semporna. 

NST also reported that two men were detained by the security forces as they walked out of a plantation near the entrance to Kampung Tanjung Labian.

Some reporters saw the Navy stopped a small boat that came close to shore not far from the Felda Residence in Lahad Datu.

There were several sightings reported of terrorists trying to escape the plantations in Lahad Datu.

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