Doc: Takes longer than 18 seconds to drag 'sturdy' Adib out from van

INQUEST | A forensics specialist said today that it would have taken more than 18 seconds to drag firefighter Muhammad Adib Kassim out of the Emergency Medical Rescue Services (EMRS) van he was in on the night of the Seafield temple riots last November.

Responding to lawyer Syazlin Mansor, representing the Housing and Local Government Ministry, Dr Ahmad Hafizam Hasmi of Hospital Kuala Lumpur said the 24-year-old firefighter, whom he described to be strongly built and a trained uniformed personnel, would have put up a fight...