Compiled by FAZLEENA AZIZ, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
FOR five days, a woman in Sibu, Sarawak, was puzzled by her dog’s incessant barking at her car. Eventually, she discovered the reason.
“I took out a torch to check under the bonnet and was shocked to find a snake in my engine,” the unidentified woman said, reported China Press.
She sought help from her neighbour but they both failed to remove the reptile.
“The next day, I contacted a snake catcher.
“He spent 10 minutes and successfully captured the two-foot python hiding under the bonnet,” she said.
Recounting the incident, the woman said she had initially thought nothing of it when her dog began barking at the car. She had even driven the car on two occasions after it began.
It was only on Wednesday night that she decided to in- vestigate why her dog was persistently barking at the front right wheel.
This incident was not an isolated one, as residents reported capturing more than 10 snakes in the neighbourhood recently.
> The operator of a Malaysian restaurant in Taipei is expected to pay a total of TW$9mil (RM1.19mil) to the families of five diners who died from food poisoning, the daily also reported.
The tragic case, which happened in March, led to the Taipei District Prosecutors Office obtaining a court order preventing the operator, the branch manager and two chefs from leaving Taiwan.
They are expected to be charged under Taiwan’s food hygiene law and for negligent homicide.
A family member of one of the victims told the press that each family was expected to receive TW$1.8mil (RM239,992) in compensation under Taiwan’s Crime Victim Rights Protection Act.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item.
