Villager builds floating pen to keep livestock safe during floods


Beating the flood Mohd Sulong, 73, posing with a floating animal pen he made outside his home at Kampung Pengkalan Ajal in Hulu Terengganu. Fed up with seeing his livestock swept away by floods, the senior constructed the unique pen out of wood with floats made from large barrels. — Bernama

KUALA BERANG: Fed up after seeing his livestock swept away by floods, a senior citizen decided to take matters into his own hands and built a floating pen to house his animals and prevent further losses from the impending northeast monsoon.

Mohd Sulong, 73, said his bitter experience of losing thousands of ringgit after his livestock was swept away in a flood made him, despite his ill health, decide to build a pen on a raft.

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