Malaysian police chief Mohammed Haroun on Sunday said that the Malaysian security services are still collecting information about the assassination of the Palestinian academic Fadi al-Batsh.
During a press conference on Sunday Haroun refused to disclose any new details about the incident saying that his country does not accuse anyone yet because the information collected so far is insufficient.
Haroun added that the suspects are believed to be Europeans calling on the people who had witnessed anything related to the incident to go to the police and provide them with the information they have.
Fadi al-Batsh was a Palestinian electrical engineer and a university professor who lived in Malaysia for seven years.
Al-Batsh was killed in Kuala Lumpur at dawn Saturday after being shot by unknown gunmen while heading for dawn prayer. Al-Batsh’s family later issued a statement accusing the Mossad of killing their son.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Seri Mazlan Lazim as quoted by The Star newspaper said that al-Batsh was on his way to a nearby mosque at around 6 am when two men on a motorcycle opened fire at him at Jalan Gombak.
Lazim pointed out that the two gunmen fired ten shots at him and that there were four bullet wounds on his body.
Head of the Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haneyya accused Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency of being behind the assassination.
While visiting the mourning tent opened near the house of al-Batsh’s family in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip Haneyya told the PIC that a Hamas delegation had headed to Malaysia to meet with officials there and follow up the investigations.
