Plastic bag causes death of whale shark in Sabah


  • Nation
  • Friday, 08 Feb 2019

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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