AN elderly Indian woman and her son who were seen sleeping on a pedestrian bridge in Ipoh received some much-needed help from a local businessman, Makkal Osai reported.
Ipoh-based antiques dealer John Manickam said he was informed about the duo’s plight by a staff member of Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun in Ipoh.
They were seen sleeping on the overhead pedestrian bridge in front of the hospital with their belongings in small bags.
The concerned Malay staff member asked for his help to find them a safe place to stay, and he is making the arrangements.
> Three children in India aged 11 and 12 were arrested after petrol-bombing a neighbour’s house and robbing another neighbour who scolded them, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The kids apparently got into a dispute with a family in a residential area in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu and threw Molotov cocktails into their house compound.
A few days later, the three boys broke into a grocery shop belonging to the victim’s neighbour after he confronted them.
Police have arrested the boys for terrorising the neighbourhood.
(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.)
