Six shots had been fired at the house of the Besut District Council president in Kampung Gong Kapas, Besut today, police said.  
    
Terengganu CPO Jamshah Mustapa said president Ibrahim Mohamad, 55, his wife and one of their children - who had been at home during the incident at 6.15am - heard explosions but did not realise they were shots.
    
It was only at 8.30am when the wife was cleaning the house that she noticed glass fragments from their car and bullet casings in the compound of the single-storey bungalow, he said.
    
She immediately called her husband - who was already at his office - and informed him of the find, he added.
    
A police probe revealed that six shots had been fired at the house, two of which hit the building and four, a Mercedes Benz CLK320 car, he told a news conference.

Jamshah noted the police did not rule out the possibility that the shots were fired as a warning, apparently by someone unhappy with action taken by the council president.
    
He said the police probe indicated that the shots had been fired from close range, about five metres away, and by more than one person.
    
The forensics team recovered a Luger Speer 9mm shell from the road in front of the house, he added.

Meanwhile, Ibrahim said he hurried home after getting the telephone call from his wife and lodged a police report.   

He said that at 6.15am, he heard what sounded like explosions outside the house but did not think that they were shots fired at the house and car.  

Ibrahim said he did not notice anything amiss when taking their 11-year-old son to school at 7.20am before proceeding to his office.

He said he did not have any enemies and left it to the police to conduct their investigation.

- Bernama