Chicken-and-egg question leads to man’s death in Indonesia


JAKARTA: Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? An argument over this age-old question has caused a man in Indonesia to stab his friend to death, according to the Indonesian police.

The man stabbed 47-year-old Kadir Markus 15 times with a type of dagger called badik on July 24, in a village in Tongkuno district, Muna regency in south-east Sulawesi.

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