Rescued old folk ignored by families


KUALA KUBU BARU: No one has come forward to claim the four senior citizens at the Kuala Kubu Baru Hospital after they were found languishing at an abandoned old folks home in Taman Wahyu last week.

Hospital staff said that while P. Muniandy, Lau Looi, Ah Meng and Jessica were healthy and eating well, police were hitting roadblocks in communicating with them as most of them could only speak in broken, incoherent sentences.

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