Police in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baling" id="mw6w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Baling">Baling</a>, Malaysia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memali_Incident" id="mw7A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Memali Incident">lay siege</a> to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.