Housewife, relatives ‘trapped’ by fallen electric pole


KOTA KINABALU: While some people are back at their hometowns celebrating Hari Raya Haji on Sunday (July 10), Dayang Fazlena Ayusai and her relatives are instead trapped after thunderstorms that occurred a day earlier.

The 37-year-old housewife and some 12 family members are stuck at her mother’s house in Kampung Tebongon, Putatan the fallen electric pole – which toppled due to a fallen tree – in a flooded area in front of the house has yet to be removed.

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