Villager finds newborn baby boy on chicken coop in Lahad Datu


A police officer points to the cordoned-off chicken coop where the villager found the newborn baby.

KOTA KINABALU: A villager’s daily morning routine of checking his chickens took a shocking turn when he found a newborn baby boy in Sabah’s east coast Lahad Datu district on Monday (June 12).

The 51-year-old man had found the baby abandoned without any clothes on him on top of one of the villager’s chicken coops at Kampung Jawa around 6.30am.

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