Jailed for attacking orang utan


KOTA KINABALU: An estate worker will spend a year in jail for attacking an orang utan in an oil palm plantation in Sandakan.

Magistrate Suhaila Selag found Syam bin Sul, 38, an Indonesian, guilty of stabbing and slashing the primate while on his way back from work on July 13.

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