Cops prevent woman from drowning

KUCHING: Members of the police bicycle patrol unit rescued an elderly woman from drowning after spotting her clinging onto a jetty at Kuching Waterfront yesterday.

The patrol unit from Central Police Station was conducting a routine inspection behind a service apartment along the waterfront when they spotted a pair of slippers neatly placed on the jetty.

They then proceeded to conduct a thorough check and soon came across the 59-year-old woman in the water clinging onto one of the jetty’s pillars.

They immediately went to her rescue and pulled her out before contacting the Civil Defence Department for help.

The woman from Kenyalang Park – described as being in a weak state – merely told police she had been clinging onto the pillar for three hours but refused to say what she was doing at the jetty in the first place or how she had fallen into the river.

She was subsequently sent to the Sarawak General Hospital for a medical check-up and was said to be in stable condition.