Nightmare home for the elderly


KUALA LUMPUR: An old lorry stands in the driveway and there’s trash piled up behind it. The double-storey house – once an old folk’s home – appears to be deserted.

But beyond the padlocked gate and the front door secured only by a nylon string, there was a scene out of a nightmare – five aged and infirm people abandoned to live in squalor.

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