Senior citizen’s body found hours after blaze destroys Tawau water village home


KOTA KINABALU: A middle-aged man was found dead following a fire in a water village squatter settlement in the Tawau district early Wednesday.

The charred remains of 60-year-old Salleh Alih were discovered only when his family realised he was missing, hours after the fire at Kg Air, Lorong Cempaka, Batu 4, had been extinguished.

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