KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 13 -- A viral video showing officers firing shots at a water village in Tawau is of an arrest operation on Oct 9, not a new incident or shooutout, according to the police

Tawau district police chief ACP Rosdi Mat Jusoh said in a statement that police were aware of the video circulating on social media, which shows shots being fired during an arrest at Kampung Titingan.

He said the operation took place at about 4pm on Oct 9. A team from the district Criminal Investigation Division, the Tawau police station Strike Team and the Titingan Area Police Post were hunting suspects in an armed robbery and attempted rape of an 18-year-old foreign woman. The crime occurred earlier that day at about 3.50am.

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