KUALA TERENGGANU, MALAYSIA - The emergence of three video clips featuring secondary school students engaging in extreme sexual acts will be investigated thoroughly, Deputy Education Minister Datuk Razali Ismail promised.

The clips depicting students in uniforms performing sexual acts were widely distributed via the handphone multimedia service (MMS) and video compact discs (VCDS) to schoolchildren. The video clips were said to be "a hot" item in rural areas here.

An annoyed Razali promised that his officers would go all out to nab the culprit(s) behind the smut.

"We will also investigate how these acts were recorded via videophones inside school premises as students are barred from carrying handphones during classes.

"Our officers have initiated a probe into three other pornographic clips involving students, two showing students involved in sexual acts believed to have originated from Bintulu, Sarawak and another from Pekan, Pahang.

"The officers will be directed to widen their investigations into these latest sexual material," he said yesterday.

Razali said he would personally see that the probe was expedited in his capacity as chairman of the national student disciplinary committee.

"We will rope in parent-teacher associations (PTAs) and the students disciplinary committee to assist in the investigation," he said.

"The outcome of the investigation will be referred to the police," he added.

Razali said he viewed these sexual acts performed by students as "a grave illness" that should be contained at once. However, he also did not discount the possibility of outsiders impersonating as students to film the sexual acts as clips depicting schoolchildren were highly sought after.

The two videos showed students having sex in classrooms and one in an area that resembles a science lab. In one of the clip, the students can be heard conversing in thick Kelantanese dialect while the female student wearing a headscarf had a name tag on a pinafore.

In the second clip, a male student is seen performing the act in what is believed to be outside a school as the emblem of a school on the background could be seen. The school is believed to be located in a rural area here.