Author: Connie Chieng

Six injured in vehicle pile-up

KUCHING: Six vehicles were involved in a pile-up at Kampung Lintang Baru, Mile 27, Kuching-Serian Road yesterday morning. Firemen arrived at the scene at 6.15am to find that four victims were already rushed to the hospital by members of the public. Two others still at the scene were moments later

Last night out for college student

KUCHING: A college student’s search for a better future came to a sudden end when she was found dead on a sofa of an entertainment outlet here yesterday. Flora Nugak, 19, from Baram was found lying lifeless on a sofa of an entertainment outlet in Ban Hock Road at 2.40pm,

Teenager dies in 3-vehicle collision

KUCHING: A teenager who was on his way to work died on the spot after the car he was driving collided with another car and a motorcycle yesterday morning at Moyan, Jalan Batu Kawa here. Aidan Audrey Andrew, 19 from Lorong 14, Batu Kawa was driving a Proton Wira with

Man hangs himself at mall staircase

KUCHING: A security guard on duty got the shock of his life when he saw a lifeless body dangling from the staircase of a shopping mall in the city at about 1pm yesterday. Robert Yong Ah Kit, aged 57, from Jalan Penrissen, was pronounced dead by medics who were called

Cheated and dumped near cemetery

KUCHING: A villager who went to buy vegetables in Bau wet market was cheated by three persons of her gold jewellery. After that, they abandoned her in some bushes near Nirvana cemetery at Siniawan. The 59-year-old woman was marketing at 10.30am yesterday when a woman offered her to help her apply

Man rushes home, fails to beat robbers to it

KUCHING: A kind neighbour alerted an education consultant of unidentified men loitering at the ground floor of his house at Jalan Keranji here on Tuesday evening. The victim rushed home immediately to find his fences and the windows wide open and the house ransacked. Afterwards after going through his things,

Fleeing youth leaves behind bike, gun

KUCHING: Personnel from the 11th Battalion General Operation Force (GOF) seized a gun, knife and motorcycle left behind by a fleeing youth at the border with Indonesia near Bau during an ‘Ops Batas Risik’ on Tuesday evening. Earlier the GOF personnel had tried to stop the motorcyclist who was riding

Reverse parking — a trend or convenience?

KUCHING: Are Kuchingnites getting more narrower roads in shophousing areas? Or is it a trend to go for reverse parking due to impatient drivers? The trend now for most drivers is to go for reverse parking and it is not surprising to see car drivers reverse parked in parking bays.

Firemen save baby trapped in car

KOTA SAMARAHAN: A team of firemen from the Kota Samarahan Fire and Rescue Station rescued a four-month-old baby girl trapped in a Proton Persona car here, yesterday. The team led by operations commander Meor Azrulhafiz took five minutes to open the car door said to have been locked for about seven

Indon man found dead in hotel room

KUCHING: A 77-year-old man from Sambas, Indonesia was found dead by his son in a hotel room at Jalan Mendu at 2.05am yesterday. This was confirmed by Kuching police chief ACP Awang Din Awang Gani. He added the dead man’s son said his father had been receiving treatment at a