Fireman undertakes gruesome task of retrieving aborted baby's remains from sewage tank

MELAKA: A fireman with 40 years of service behind him showed he was still willing to undertake the most gruesome of tasks when he volunteered to descend into a sewage tank to retrieve the remains of an aborted baby.

Ramli Abu Bakar, 60, who is the Padang Temu Fire and Rescue Department chief fireman, said he had to go into the tank at Kampung Kandang here as the baby's remains could not be seen from ground level.