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Firefighter Muhammad Adib's death
Unsolved: a coroner ruled in 2019 that Adib was killed by unidentified attackers, but no one has been charged over his death. Seventeen men tried only for rioting at the temple were acquitted in 2023, and no newer police or court action was found.
- Category
- Crime
- Since
- 27 Nov 2018
- Last update
- 27 Jun 2023
- Next
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Timeline
- Adib was badly injured during a riot at the Seafield Sri Maha Mariamman temple in USJ 25, Subang Jaya.
- He died of his injuries at the National Heart Institute.
- The Shah Alam Coroner's Court ruled his death was caused by two or three unidentified people, not an accident.
- The IGP said police still could not identify anyone to prosecute and suggested a panel to review the pathologists' conflicting views.
- The government paid his family RM1.5 million in compensation, and a special committee later handed its report to the government in August 2022.
- A Petaling Jaya court acquitted 17 men charged with rioting at the temple; none of them faced charges over Adib's death.