Johor Bahru Selatan district police chief Supt M Kumar said the teenagers, aged between 11 and 15, were hauled up by a police team from the Pelangi Indah Police Station at 4.30pm following tip-offs from members of the public.
“There are still cycling groups who are stubborn like ‘Jempol’ and who have turned the roads into a venue for them to race and play around despite the deadly incident which claimed eight lives in Jalan Lingkaran Dalam near the Mahmoodiah cemetery on February 18,” he said in a statement today.
Kumar said investigations revealed that one of the boys was a school dropout.
All the teenagers were issued summonses before being handed over to their parents, he added.