‘Nobody should experience this kind of loss’


Family tragedy: Ai Lee will submit a letter to Dr Zaliha to highlight the matter as her family wants the government to take firm action to prevent the loss of more lives in the future.

KLUANG: The family of the elderly couple who died after unknowingly consuming pufferfish, or ikan buntal, has pleaded to the public to stop selling and buying the fish.

The couple’s daughter, Ng Ai Lee, 51, said losing her mother Lim Siew Guan, 83, and father Ng Chuan Sing @ Eng Kuai Sin, 84, this way was very painful for her family.

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