Jenjarom: Police are tracking a group of men suspected of committing a robbery when armed with a machete at a flower shop in Jenjarom, Kuala Langat, near here, yesterday.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, Kuala Langat deputy police chief DSP Mohd Sufian Amin said this followed a report by a woman at 4.50 pm yesterday claiming that she was robbed at the flower shop at about 1.30 pm. The report detailed that a group of men, with their heads covered and armed with a machete, arrived in a white Proton Saga car and approached her in the shop.

One of the men pointed a machete at the woman before snatching a gold necklace, worth RM4,000, she was wearing and then fled, he said in a statement here today. The victim, who was with her child in the shop, was not harmed during the incident.

Mohd Sufian added that the police had opened an investigation paper under Section 395/397 of the Penal Code. He urged members of the public with information regarding the incident to contact the Kuala Langat District Police Headquarters (IPD) operations room at 03-31872222 to assist in the investigation.