Man slashes own throat after allegedly choking wife to death in KK rented room


KOTA KINABALU: A man tried to take his own life by slashing his throat after allegedly choking his wife to death following a heated argument here on Tuesday (April 18).

A neighbour, who heard the couple quarrelling loudly earlier, found the woman’s body as well as the man lying on the floor of their rented room in a Jalan Pantai shophouse here at about 5.30am.

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