37. Nurin Murder Probe

Police arrested five people, one of them a woman, in separate raids in Shah Alam last night to assist them in their probe into the murder of an eight-year-old girl, Nurin Jazlin Jazimin.

Besides the arrests of the five, aged between 27 and 33 years, the police also seized two cars and five mobile phones, Bukit Aman CID Director Datuk Christopher Wan Soo Kee said in a statement.

He said the arrests were made following a public tip-off.

At about noon today, the Petaling Jaya Magistrate's Court issued an order to remand the four men for a week from today to help in the police investigation.

The woman was released by the police.

Meanwhile, from information obtained by Bernama, the arrests were the first made since "Ops Sunti" was launched to hunt down Nurin Jazlin's murderer after her body was found stuffed in a sports bag at a shoplot in Jalan PJS 1/48, Taman Petaling Utama, Petaling Jaya, on Sept 17.

The four men were brought to the Petaling Jaya Magistrate's Court in two police vans, the first vehicle with two men arriving at 11.30am and the second with two more coming 20 minutes later.

At about noon, Magistrate Nurmala Salim issued remand orders for a week from today on the four men.

Meanwhile, a visit to Nurin Jazlin's family home in Section 1, Wangsa Maju, here saw the front door locked from the outside, indicating that no one was in.

Nurin Jazlin, a Year Two pupil of Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Desa Setapak, was reported missing on Aug 20 when she went alone to a nearby night market.

The "Ops Sunti" special team comprises police personnel from Bukit Aman, and the Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Sentul district and Petaling Jaya district police contingent headquarters, and is led by the Federal CID director - Bernama.