Malaysiakini has obtained the six-minute video showing a student being slapped, punched and kicked by a pack of schoolgirls.

The clip has been circulating on the Internet and was posted in a popular video website, California-based You Tube .

However, the clip was removed by the website late last night after the existence of the video was reported by the media. You Tube posted the following message, "This video has been removed due to term of use violation."

Malaysiakini, which has a copy of the footage yesterday , has decided today to release an edited version of the video by blurring the faces of both the assailants and the victim to protect their identity as they are minors.

It is said that the incident, believed to have been recorded using a mobile phone, occurred in the beach town of Miri, Sarawak, recently.

The clip showed half-a-dozen girls clad in their secondary school uniforms verbally and physically abusing a colleague in a beach-front park while about four male students look on.

The students, apparently from a secondary school, were all speaking in Mandarin.

Two of the girls questioned the victim for complaining that she was beaten by one of the female bullies (who wears a green tracksuit in the video clip).

"Are you going to tell us or not?" exclaimed the girls.

The victim remained silent but after being repeatedly slapped, she kept denying that she had told anyone about the earlier incident.

But her assailants continued to hit and kicked her. "Did you say that (you were beaten)? I'm asking you. No? If no, then you fight back. If no, why did the boys beat us?"

Second video

At this juncture, the boys tell the girls to stop hitting the victim. "Enough! Haven't you beaten her enough?"

The boys later shielded the victim and led her away but her assailants continued to pull her hair and slap her.

From their remarks, it is believed that the victim had complained to her male schoolmates of being bullied by this group of girls and this apparently prompted some boys to rough up the girls.

The clip, which received front-page coverage in the media today, is the second of such videos depicting school bullies.

Earlier this week, seven students were expelled from a school in Johor after a video clip showing them violently beating up a colleague. Six have since been interrogated by the police.

Marcus Gauliang, the headmaster of SMK Joseph - the school where the girls were believed to hail from - said that he had yet to receive a complaint on the matter.

He added that it could be the work of some students trying to smear the school's image.

Six-minute video clip