Safe and sound: Kpl Jain being brought into an ambulance after being rescued from the border island of Tugupil by the navy.
KOTA KINABALU: A Malaysian frontline soldier who was pierced in his abdomen by a swordfish has been sent to the hospital after the navy picked him up during a mercy mission.
Kpl Jain Humjak, who is a member of the army’s Border Regiment deployed to Pulau Tugupil, is recovering at the Duchess of Kent Hospital in Sandakan after he was brought in at about 11.45am yesterday.
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