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Fri, Feb 29, 2008
The Straits Times
Escaped JI militant seen running up slope to Malcolm Park

ESCAPED terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari was seen limping up a flight of steps leading to a wooded park, near the Whitley Road Detention Centre where he bolted on Wednesday at about 4.05 pm.

The manager of a car washing kiosk at the Esso petrol station on Whitley Road was reported by Shin Ming Daily as having told his worker that he saw a short-hair man, whose upper body was bare and who was wearing brown shorts with the letters WRC embossed on it, struggling up the flight of about 50 steps at about 5 pm, barely an hour after his daring escape from the detention centre.

The wooded park leads to Bukit Brown Chinese cemetery.

Acting on this lead, about 40 Gurkha guards searched the thickly-wooded cemetery on Friday afternoon.

An extensive manhunt continued on Friday for the leader of the Singapore Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror network, who has been on the run for three days now.

On Friday, posters of of Singapore's most wanted man went up in many public places, such as MRT stations, bus interchanges, shopping centres and mosques.

Leaflets were also pushed into letter-boxes of residents living in landed property, seeking their help to look out for the fugitive, who once plotted to crash a hijacked plane onto Changi Airport and bomb several American establishments in Singapore.


 
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