A string of suspected gangland shootings that killed four men in just eight days has shaken Kuala Lumpur, stoking public fears and casting doubt on police assurances that the city remains safe.
The latest shooting on Friday saw a 46-year-old man gunned down in broad daylight as he sat in the driver’s seat of a four-wheel-drive car in Selangor’s port city of Klang, which has a reputation for organised crime.
Cheras, an area known for its concentration of Chinese Malaysians and a growing number of immigrants from China who have set up small businesses, has long been notorious for gang-related activity.
Police said preliminary investigations suggested the killings in Cheras and an earlier fatal shooting in Brickfields – a neighbourhood colloquially known as “Little India”, where ethnic Indian gangs have long operated – could be linked to gang violence.
