KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 22): Only a few shops at the Kota Raya shopping complex in Kuala Lumpur remained closed, days after a brawl took place there.

A check by The Malaysian Insider today found mobile phone shops and other businesses such as grocery stores, jewellery shops and those selling accessories were back in business without concern about any possible trouble.

"I closed my shop immediately when the incident broke out on Sunday and left, but I reopened my shop yesterday," said a grocery store owner, who declined to be named.

Staff at mobile phone shops were not willing to speak, and only shook their heads when asked about the Sunday incident.

"This shop belongs to a different boss," one employee said when asked about the shop next door, which was closed.

Among the shops that are closed, there is a notice pasted on the wall that read: “Beginning December 17, the previous owner has moved. We are new owners. Thank you for your cooperation.”

The complex is also less crowded compared to previously.

Bernama had previously quoted the complex management spokesman as saying that the owner of the premises where the brawl took place had been ordered to close temporarily until the police completed its probe.

On Sunday, a group of men, believed to be customers and mobile phone traders, engaged in a brawl at the ground floor of the complex.

A two-and-a-half-minutes video clip of the fight had been uploaded on YouTube.

But according to Roslan Ismail, a representative of the victims in a press conference an hour after the incident, the fight was between a mobile phone trader and his customer.

Roslan said his group had brought the victim to get his money back after he was allegedly cheated by the trader, not to cause a ruckus or a racial riot.

Admitting to be social activists, he said he had brought six victims, who were mostly women and two of them Indonesians, to get their money back peacefully.