KOTA SAMARAHAN: A car believed to have been abandoned by the roadside overnight, caused an accident along Jalan Batu 15 Expressway here today (Mar 19) resulting in a driver sustaining light injuries. It was learnt the Proton Iswara was left by the roadside without any warning lights or hazard signs
KUCHING: The swift and decisive actions by six security guards of Borneo Cultures Museum here successfully extinguished a car fire that broke out at the museum’s car park today. In a commendable act of bravery, the guards managed to prevent total destruction to the parked Proton Persona at Jalan Tun
KAPIT: The Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) here rescued a toddler from a terrifying encounter of being trapped inside a car for 15 minutes yesterday (Mar 18). The mother panicked when she realised that her one-year-old daughter was locked inside the car in front of Kapit Market here. It is believed
KUCHING: The number of flood victims at temporary relief centres (PPS) in the district has increased to 248 victims involving 63 families this morning (Mar 19), compared to 160 victims yesterday. The Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) in their 11am update, said the number of flood evacuees remained the same at
BINTULU: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) here detained a tugboat and a barge laden with suspicious timber logs, about 2.1 nautical miles off Kuala Tatau estuary last Thursday (Mar 16). Bintulu Maritime Zone director Captain Mohd Khairol Anuar Saad, in a statement, said the vessels were detained around 11.30am. The vessels
KUCHING: The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living (KPDN) Sarawak managed to seize 5,800 litres of subsidised diesel that were illegally stored in a premises in the city on Friday (Mar 17). Its director Matthew Dominic Barin, said in a statement that the operation, codenamed ‘Ops Tiris’ was carried
MIRI: The Civil Defence Force (APM) here captured two snakes at two separate locations today afternoon (Mar 16). A spokesman from APM Miri said the first case involved a one-metre-long cobra at a house in Tudan Desaras 2, Phase 6. A 39-year-old woman came across the venomous reptile outside her
BETONG: A local man was left injured after falling from a mango tamarind tree that he climbed yesterday. The incident happened at Belingan, Jalan Tanjung Assam and it left the victim with injuries to his lower back. A spokesman from the Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) said they received a
BINTULU: Narcotics police detained a local suspected drug dealer yesterday for possessing drugs believed to be Ecstasy powder. Bintulu OCPD Supt Batholomew Umpit said the 38-year-old was arrested for allegedly distributing and abusing drugs in Jalan Sibiyu housing estate, here. “He will be investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous
MIRI: A 53-year-old man had an early morning surprise when he found a nine-foot-long reticulated python in his chicken coop at Kampung Lopeng Tengah here today. A spokesman for the Civil Defence Force (APM) said they received a distress call around 7.40 am and a four-member team was deployed to