Man who threw machete at teenagers nabbed in Tawau


KOTA KINABALU: A man who had allegedly tried attacking three teenagers with a machete in the Tawau district has been nabbed.

The suspect, a 37-year-old undocumented Indonesian, was said to have started chasing the teenagers comprising a boy and two girls at 1.43pm, as they were walking through an oil palm estate at Jalan Kongsi 8, on Friday (Nov 24).

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