Maintenance worker dies from suspected heatstroke in Sarawak forest


SIBU: A 52-year-old maintenance worker died while at work possibly due to heatstroke in Jalan Paradom on Sunday (May 7).

Sibu OCPD Asst Comm Zulkipli Suhaili said police received a report from the Civil Defence Force at 3.15pm about a worker of a utilities company who had fainted in a forest in Jalan Paradom.

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