Army veteran recounts experience stepping into milk booby trap set by communists


KUALA NERUS: In 1974, while on patrol in a forest in Baling, Kedah, Othman Bashah Saleh who was attached to the Royal Malay Regiment fell into a booby trap set by the communists that shattered the bones of his right sole.

It has been 48 years since the incident that left a three-inch scar on his sole, but to Othman Bashah, now 74, it feels like yesterday.

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