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Via Bernama August 2, 18:55hr:

Acting Kelantan CID chief Supt Shafie Ismail has lodged a police report over an article posted on a website which claimed that the police were behind the pepper spray incident involving former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Shafie said the report against Malaysiakini.com was lodged at the Kota Baharu police station at 4.25 pm on July 31.

The police report was lodged to enable police to conduct investigations, Bernama added.

This is the clarification from Malaysiakini yesterday:

Editor’s note: Malaysiakini's newsflash on the incident which initially mentioned the possibility of the police being involved was due to the confusion at the scene where conflicting versions had surfaced on what had happened.

The newsflash was based on our journalist who was at the Kota Bahru airport where he initially filed the report that it was Ibrahim Ali who was attacked, not Dr Mahathir Mohamad. This was because of the great commotion among the 1,000-strong supporters who were at the airport to welcome Mahathir.

Malaysiakini had also immediately tried to contact Deputy Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan several times for comments but the calls went unanswered.

However, the report was rectified an hour later when the situation became clearer and the mention of possible police involvement was promptly removed. Malaysiakini regrets the error.

I heard everybody is keeping vigilant.