PEKAN: Tasik Chini, the country’s second-largest freshwater lake, is contaminated with high levels of e-coli, the bacteria that may have caused rashes and diarrhoea among the orang asli living near it.
This has prompted the state government to warn the 400 villagers, including 100 children aged six and under, not to drink water from the lake and wells.
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