Senior citizen dies after eating pufferfish


KLUANG: A senior citizen has died after eating pufferfish or ikan buntal, while her husband is now in the intensive care unit (ICU).

According to Johor health and unity committee chairman Ling Tian Soon, the 83-year-old woman and her husband, 84, from Jalan Sin Tiam in Chamek here, ordered the fish through social media and received it on Saturday (March 25) morning.

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