Man on the run after setting friend on fire over a smartphone


ALOR GAJAH: A 29-year-old man doused his friend with petrol and set him alight - all over the suspected theft of a smartphone.

Alor Gajah OCPD Supt Arshad Abu said the 23-year-old victim, from Taman Lendu Bakti here, suffered serious burns in the arson attack.

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