‘Home alone’ senior citizens among offenders


GEORGE TOWN: For the sake of convenience, some “home alone” elderly people with mobility problems just drop their bags of waste from the balconies of high-rise buildings.

Such incidents still happen at the Rifle Range flats in Ayer Itam, the oldest public housing scheme in Penang.

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