The World - News from Nov. 21, 1985
The leader of an outlawed Muslim fundamentalist party and 17 other people were killed when Malaysian police tried to arrest him at his home in the northwestern part of the country. The dead included four policemen. Twenty policemen and nine civilians were wounded in the battle between police and about 400 people at Kampong Siong, 210 miles from Kuala Lumpur and 18 miles from the Thai border. Police wanted to arrest Ibrahim Libya, head of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, because of extremist activities in the area, officials said.
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