KOTA BHARU, April 21 -- A man was injured after he was shot in the chin in Ladang Kemahang, Tanah Merah, early yesterday morning.

Tanah Merah district police chief Supt Mohd Haki Hasbullah said the shooting occurred at about 2.30am, when a salesman and his friends, who were patrolling the area looking for cow thieves from 1.30am, came across a group of about five men, both foreign and local.

"The suspects were then believed to have fired a few shots from close range at the salesman and his friends," he said in a statement yesterday, adding that the salesman and his friends ran away to save themselves.

One of the salesman's friends, Mohd Khairul Amri Ab Kadir, 43, was hit in the chin and was taken to Tanah Merah Hospital for further tre...