Six unknown individuals who were often seen at the Viewing Gallery of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) have been asked to leave the area.

The incident had been confirmed by the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) through a posting on its official Facebook page today.

Since Tuesday, two foreigners had reportedly been seen taking pictures and numbers of all the aircrafts docked at the KLIA.

Yesterday, six British nationals were found to have carried out similar activities.

All of them were found to be taking pictures and recording the aircraft numbers of every plane on the tarmac.

Their activities had been detected the airport’s security personnel who had asked them to leave the area.