Plastic bag causes death of whale shark in Sabah

By STEPHANIE LEE

Nation
Friday, 08 Feb 2019
10:25 AM MYT

KOTA KINABALU: A whale shark was found dead in waters off the Tanjung Aru beach in Menumbok, some 140km from here.

Postmortem results showed the shark had died of starvation and indigestion as it had a huge plastic bag stuck in its stomach.

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