Boy falls from 14th floor of Kota Kinabalu hotel


KOTA KINABALU: Wailing cries of heartbroken parents awoke residents at a hotel in the city when their 12-year-old son was killed after falling nine floors from the hotel room they were staying in on Monday (Feb 27).

It is learnt that the family was staying at the hotel's 14th floor, and the boy's body was found on a fifth-floor veranda.

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