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A Malaysian opposition politician who worked on native land rights issues was shot dead on Tuesday six weeks after a failed run for a local assembly seat.
Bill Kayong, 43, was gunned down in his pickup truck while stopped at a traffic light in the small city of Miri in Sarawak state, police said.
Kayong was a member of the opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People’s Justice Party) and had run for a Sarawak state assembly seat in elections held on May 7.
Dev Kumar, the head of criminal investigations for Sarawak, which lies along the northern portion of huge Borneo island, said in a statement that Kayong was “shot dead by an unknown person using a shotgun.”