Woman dies after eating pufferfish, hubby warded in ICU


KLUANG: An elderly woman cooked fish for herself and her husband for lunch, but the meal left the 83-year-old woman dead and her husband fighting for his life in the intensive care unit (ICU).

The fish they had bought was the deadly pufferfish.

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