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Foul odour leads to decomposed body in apartment

PADAWAN: An octogenarian was found dead in an apartment unit at Synergy Square, Jalan Matang, here yesterday (Dec 13). The incident came to light when a tenant complained to the police around 4pm of foul odour emanating from the apartment unit. A police team from the Batu Kawa police station was despatched to the scene. […]

Search for octogenarian to no avail on seventh day

SIBU: The search for Kuta Jenang came up to no avail as the operation enters its seventh day. The State Fire and Rescue Operation Centre (Bomba) said various agencies and villagers including the police joined in the operation to look for the 81-year-old man. The search radius is five kilometres from the control post in […]

Missing man, 83, found safe but weak

MARUDI: An octogenarian man, Lah Ajang, 83, who mysteriously went vanished for four days since Wednesday (June 8), was found safe this morning. Lah Ajang was reported missing on Wednesday morning while at the entrance gate of his residence in Golden Hill, Marudi. Subsequently, a total of 70 persons including rescuers from Marudi Fire and […]

Early morning fire kills elderly

LIMBANG: An octogenarian was burnt to death while two of her family members survived a fire that razed a shop building in Jalan Kubong at 2.31am early this morning. The wheel-chair bound Wong Ah Ping, in her 80s, was said to be trapped in a room while her husband and two daughters escaped with minor […]

Old age no barrier to getting inoculated

BINTULU: It has been noted that old age is not an obstacle for anyone who wishes to get immunised by getting injected with the Covid-19 vaccine. The fact that two octogenarians were among the 413 individuals receiving their first dose of Covid-19 vaccines (Sinovac) on Saturday was a testament of this. Both took the opportunity […]

Octogenarian shares experience after 24 days in ICU

Covid 19

MELAKA: Octogenarian K (not his real name) from Tanjung Kling here is one of many people of his age who recovered after being infected with the Covid-19 virus in December last year. The 89-year-old is among 256,678 patients who have recovered in the Covid-19 pandemic in the country which has claimed 1,076 lives in Malaysia […]