Hawker and woman found dead in apparent suicide, note found


Gruesome find: Ong (left) and Hooi were found dead at their house in Taman Machang Bubok.

BUKIT MERTAJAM: Hawker Ong Ewe Chye, whose decomposed body was found together with the body of a woman inside a rented double-storey house in Taman Machang Bubok here, had left a note for his family telling them not worry over his death.

Police found the note and a digital voice recorder inside a room on the ground floor of the house.

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