Floods: Noble effort ends in tragedy in Penampang


Rescue workers carrying the body into a police truck.

KOTA KINABALU: A married couple’s noble intention to send food to people stranded by the floods ended in tragedy when the wife drowned in Penampang near here.

In the incident, the couple decided to walk through floodwaters to deliver food to Donggongon town at about 10pm on Sunday (June 30).

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