Suicidal man jumps off second bridge


GEORGE TOWN: The Marine Police, already with their hands full trying to retrieve the SUV wreckage from the bottom of the first Penang bridge, received an SOS about a man who had fallen from the second Penang bridge about 9km away.

A 33-year-old planning executive, dressed smartly in a suit, jumped off from Km12.1 of the bridge, but fishermen under the bridge quickly rushed to his aid.

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