Youth from Song shot by hunting partner dies
Posted on July 20, 2011, Wednesday
SIBU: A youth in Song was shot by his hunting partner who mistook him for a wild boar during hunting on Sunday.
Morsli Jilai was already dead when longhouse folk rushed him to Song Clinic.
The 23-year-old was hit on the left side of his chest and stomach by the shotgun.
The two had earlier split in the jungle to hunt.
Noises in the jungle and moving grasses and leaves led his partner to believe he had found his target.
After Mosli was shot, his partner called for help.
Mosli’s body was sent to Sibu Hospital for postmortem, and the police in Song are investigating.
In an unrelated case in Sibu on Monday, two persons including a woman were arrested after police found them with stolen properties including 11 handphone sets, a laptop computer and digital camera.
Policemen from the Narcotics Department had stormed their house at Kampung Baru in search of illegal drugs. They found no drugs but stumbled on the stolen properties.
The two, a man in his 40s and a foreign woman in her 50s, were arrested and the properties seized.
Their urine tested negative for drugs, and they were remanded for three days to facilitate investigation.
In another crime on Monday, police seized a car from a workshop after they suspected it had been stolen in Brunei and driven here.
The thieves were believed to have sent the car to the garage to change its wind screens because they had been sand blasted with the car’s registration number.
Police who were tipped off on the alleged crime stormed the garage to seize the car.
The garage owner is required to help in their probe.
