Army sergeant receives honors for saving drowning teenagers at Puncak Alam


KUALA LUMPUR: "My only thought was their lives hanging in the balance," says Staff Sergeant Mohd Nor Khalid as he recalled the moment he jumped into a lake in Puncak Alam to save four teenagers last Sunday (Nov 24).

In the incident, six teenagers almost drowned when their rowboat toppled over. Two of them managed to swim to shore while four others clung to the rowboat before Mohd Nor saved them.

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