PASIR MAS: An undercover narcotics policeman was shot during an operation to nab two peddlers at a restaurant along Jalan Pasir Mas-Rantau Panjang here.

L/Kpl Muhammad Hairi Yusoff ducked in time and the bullet grazed the back of his head.

He was with a team of officers conducting a sting on drug peddlers on Sunday night.

Two suspects arrived in a Proton Waja and met the "buyers" at the restaurant here, near the Rantau Panjang border town.

While "negotiations" to purchase some amphetamine pills were going on, the suspects became suspicious and L/Kpl Hairi tried to arrest them.

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