1985 Lahad Datu ambush

The pirates shot at random targets, killing at least 21 people and injuring 11 others,[1][2] and stole some $200,000 from a local bank as well as another $5,000 from the Malaysia Airlines office.

[2][4] On the evening of 23 September, a number of armed men clad in jungle green uniforms appeared in the town and started to shoot random targets.

During an interview with him, he said that: While I was walking around a coastal road, I saw eight men dressed in combat uniforms carrying M16 and machine guns running towards the centre of the town.

[1] Two of the pirates were wounded during a shootout with the marine police, but still managed to carry their injured allies into two awaiting pump boats and made their getaway back to the Philippines.

[1][2] While the rest of the pirates escaped to the international border,[4] the police recovered a number of M16 rifles and a whole armoury of assorted weapons.