Police awaiting submerged SUV find a man off second Penang bridge


GEORGE TOWN: The search-and-recovery team put on standby at the Marine Police base in Batu Uban to retrieve the sports utility vehicle that plunged into the sea from the Penang Bridge were surprised when a police boat brought back the semi-conscious body of a 33-year-old man.

The man, whose identity has not been released, is believed to have fallen off the Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah Bridge (the new Penang bridge) at KM2.2 on Tuesday (Jan 22).

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