Man accidentally shoots cousin dead on Sabah hunting trip


  • Nation
  • Saturday, 22 Jul 2017

Ahmad and police officers showing the bakakuk and other items seized from the suspect and victim.

KOTA KINABALU: A man accidentally shot and killed his 38-year-old cousin after mistaking him as game during a hunting trip in the interior sub-district of Sook, some 150km from here.

Keningau police chief Deputy Supt Ahmad Jawila said the deceased, identified as Christanius Lukas, the shooter and his father as well as another friend went into the forest late Monday with their home-made guns, locally known as Bakakuk.

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