Lahad Datu woman arrested for allegedly abandoning newborn baby


KOTA KINABALU: A 30-year-old local woman has been arrested on suspicion of abandoning her newborn baby boy who subsequently died at Kampung Burung in Lahad Datu on July 18.

Lahad Datu district police chief Asst Comm Dzulbaharin Ismail said that police arrested a woman on Sunday (July 20) outside a house in the village.

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