The Criminal Investigation Department in Bukit Aman is now heading the investigation into the "intrusion of Sulu terrorists" into Lahad Datu, CID director Datuk Seri Bakri Zinin said.
He said the CID team was gathering evidence in Sabah.
"Our investigation is exhaustive and covers all angles, even on how the terrorists obtained their weapons and received aid. We are focusing not only in Lahad Datu and Semporna but over a wider area," he told reporters at his office here.
Bakri said the challenge the investigators faced in gathering evidence was made even more difficult by the decomposing bodies of the terrorists killed in the government offensive.
"Sulu terrorists" from the southern Philippines who entered Sabah on Feb 12 killed eight policemen on March 1 and 2 after dismissing a government offer to lay down arms, Malaysian police said.
A government offensive launched on March 5 resulted in the deaths of 62 terrorists.
A soldier was also killed in a gun battle and another died in a road accident.
Bakri also said that the police were looking into getting investigating officers for the six new police stations to be set up in the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOM) area stretching 1,400 kms along the state's east coast.
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