Compiled by SHYAFIQ DZULKIFLI, C.ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
A LARGE speaker set up for a temple festival fell on a six-year-old girl, crushing her to death in a freak accident in India.
The speakers were apparently set up by the girl’s father outside their house to blast devotional songs during the festival held in Ramanathapuram city, Tamil Nadu, Makkal Osai reported.
The girl, who was identified only as Sugavathi, was playing near the speaker stack and had untied the safety ropes holding them in place.
The tragedy has left the townsfolk devastated.
> The daily also reported that a book of poems by Malaysian poet Tamilselvam Kaathamuthu has been launched in Kuala Lumpur.
Titled Puthiya Olaichuvadi, Tamilselvam said he was already working on his next book.
Olaichuvadi refers to a type of palm leaf paper used in India. It also colloquially refers to the practice of olaichuvadi astrology where verses of wisdom written on supposedly ancient books of olaichuvadi are used in a manner similar to tarot readings.
(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.)
