China tourist caught in betting den


A good hand: ACP Sum showing the items seized during the raid on the gambling shack at the oil palm plantation in Tambun.

IPOH: A Chinese tourist was arrested for gambling in Tambun, just a day after she arrived in Malaysia.

The tourist, in her 40s, followed a friend to a makeshift gambling shack in an oil palm plantation, some 3km from Tambun town on Tuesday but unfortunately for her, the police conducted a raid there at about 1.50pm, arresting her and 20 others.

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