BINTULU: A fatal accident near the Kampung Pisang petrol station along Jalan Pesisir Samalaju, here, claimed the lives of a mother and her seven-year-old child. The incident occurred last night (Sept 15) around 9.50pm when the duo was travelling on a motorcycle ridden by the woman’s husband when a four-wheel-drive
KUCHING: A vacant home was reduced to ashes in a fire today (Sept 16). In the incident at Kampung Kolong 2 near Jalan Matang, here, the house caught fire at around noon. The State Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) operations centre said it received a call at 12.26pm and firefighters
KUCHING: A greengrocer was charged in the Magistrate’s Court here last Monday (Sept 13) for lodging a false report that he was robbed. The 29-year-old man who claimed to have been robbed of over RM5,000 at knifepoint, admitted filing a false report after spending the money belonging to him and
LUNDU: A seven-year-old boy was among eight illegal immigrants deported back to Indonesia on Wednesday (Sept 15). They were caught entering Sarawak via illegal routes, known locally as jalan tikus, at Kampung Biawak here. The army’s 1st Infantry Division, in a statement, said the illegal immigrants were intercepted at around
KUCHING: A man was killed in a collision between a multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) and a lorry along KM6.5 Jalan Bau-Kuching on Tuesday (Sept 14). Sarawak Traffic Investigation and Enforcement chief Supt Alexson Naga Chabu identified the deceased as 21-year-old Tian Zhen Kang from Siburan. He said the 9.30am incident occurred
BAU: Firefighters on Tuesday (Sept 14) finally managed to extricate the body of a driver of an excavator from beneath fallen rocks in a quarry at Jalan Tanjung Durian here on Monday (Sept 13). The body of Anthony Kanna, 48, was extricated at 12.23pm, approximately 21 hours after the rocks
MIRI: A migrant worker was killed days after his birthday on Sept 11 in an accident involving a motorcycle and a tanker truck at the Bekenu junction, Jalan Miri-Bintulu here on Monday (Sept 13). The motorcyclist, Muhammad Yahya Simang, 43, an Indonesian national, was confirmed dead at the scene by
BAU: A sudden rockfall at a quarry near Kampung Tanjung Durian along Jalan Tanjung Durian here crushed an excavator and trapped its driver. At the time of writing this report, the victim, Anthony Kanna, 48, is still buried under the rocks. The 3pm incident on Monday (Sept 13) happened while
KUCHING: Two blocks of workers’ quarters at a farm in Sungai Tisek, Betong were destroyed in a fire on Monday morning (Sept 13). State Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) operations centre said a distress call on the incident was received around 7am. It said firefighters from the Betong Fire and
MIRI: A recent case of a local man arrested for stealing baby formula milk from a store in Miri Times Square was not what it seemed as first reported by the media. In light of recent public uproar especially among netizens who chastised the police for bringing the ‘poor man’
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