Rescuers take half an hour to convince man to climb down from electric tower


KOTA KINABALU: Rescuers, including firemen, took about half an hour persuading a man who had climbed up a transmission tower in Sandakan to come down at around noon on Thursday (Nov 11).

It was unclear why the 28-year-old had wanted to climb up the tower, but rescuers suspect he had attempted to commit suicide.

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