Man plummets to death while retrieving ball during pickleball game


KUALA LUMPUR: A 32-year-old man fell to his death while retrieving a ball from the third floor of a building.

Wangsa Maju OCPD Asst Comm Mohamad Lazim Ismail said the victim was playing pickleball on the third floor of a building in Pudu at about 9.43pm on Tuesday (Dec 2).

"The ball had gone out of the court, and he climbed over a fence in an attempt to get it back," he explained when contacted on Wednesday (Dec 3). "He fell while reaching for the ball."

The case has been classified as sudden death.

Earlier, photos of the incident had gone viral on social media.

 

 

 

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