KUALA LUMPUR: Police are still investigating the petrol bomb attacks carried out at three KK Mart stores in Perak, Pahang and Sarawak.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain, however, said the closed-circuit television camera (CCTV) footage obtained at the stores was not much of a help.
"The case is still under investigation. However, CCTV footage also cannot provide much help. Hence, we are now depending on information from the public and intelligence information (to solve the case)," he said at a press conference during the transfer of duties ceremony for the Director and Chairman of the Investigation and Traffic Enforcement Department, today (April 8).
The first bomb attack on the KK Mart store occurred in Bidor, Perak, which was hit with a molotov cocktail on March 26. The bomb, however, did not explode.
Meanwhile, the second attack was in Kuantan, Pahang, where the same bomb was thrown resulting in a small fire at the shop's front entrance.
The third attack at a KK Mart store was in Kuching, Sarawak on March 31.
Previously, the convenience store chain was hit with calls for a boycott after images showing a pair of socks bearing the word 'Allah' were allegedly being sold at a KK Super Mart store in Bandar Sunway.
The incident triggered a frenzied reaction among various quarters.
On March 16, KK Mart Group founder and executive chairman Datuk Seri Dr Chai Kee Kan made a public apology for the mistake made in his 23 years in the business, saying he could not accept the sales of socks bearing the word Allah, what more to print such products.
On March 26, both Chai and his wife Datin Seri Loh Siew Mui, who is also the company director, were charged with intentionally wounding the religious feelings of Muslims by displaying stockings printed with the word 'Allah' on the sales shelves at the Sessions Court. Both of them pleaded not guilty.
