Two police corporals have been promoted to the rank of sergeant after engaging in a shootout with smugglers at the Malaysia-Thailand border yesterday, resulting in the death of one of them.

The police officers are Baharuddin Ramli, 54, who was killed in the encounter near Padang Besar, Perlis, and Norihan a/l Tari, 39, who is under treatment at the Tuanku Fauziah Hospital in Kangar...