JOHOR BAHRU, Feb. 4 -- Police believe that the two dead adult victims were friends who were killed together before being set ablaze with four others in a house in Kangkar Pulai here early last month.

Johor police chief Datuk Ab Rahaman Arsad said initial investigations revealed that the two adult victims - a 35-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man - were known to each other.

"Police can only confirm that the relationship between the two victims was that of friends.

"I can't reveal further details right now because the case is still in court. Let the motive be revealed in court later during the trial," he told reporters when met after a handover ceremony for the new Johor deputy police chief at the state police contingent headquarters h...