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Newspaper- The Star National Daily
This is the front page of issue 2737 dated Thursday August 26th 1976. It leads with the headline of " FOUR REDS KILLED IN SHOOT-OUT" . This incident was happened in Ipoh. 4 communists were killed during raids conducted by police. 1 civilian and a police officer were murdered and 2 police officers were constable injured during the shoot-out. According to the Home Affairs Minister Tan Sri Haji Ghazali Shafie, the civilian is a cashier at a departmental store. Inside the articles it also mentioned that " The CPO, Mr Yuen , advised that the landlords should record all the information about the tenants.To know more about the CPO , Mr Yuen, click the link below. Another news is about a man died from a car crash at Taiping.