By THE BORNEOTODAY TEAM
KOTA KINABALU – A 35-year-old man, said to be mentally unsound, stripped off his clothes and dived naked into the sea near Sabah Ports on Friday evening causing a stir among workers nearby.
The man, had only two days earlier been released from the Hospital Mesra Bukit Padang, where he had been warded since January 7.
He was fished out by marine policemen who answered a distress call from members of the public with nothing more than a gash on his forehead as well as broken bone at the back of one of his knees.
Kota KInabalu district police chief, Assistant Commissioner M Chandra said the man had been reported missing over the last 48 hours by his mother.
“He had been discharged from Hospital Mesra and were at the bus terminal waiting for a bus to take him and his mother back to Beaufort last Wednesday,” said Chandra in a statement Saturday.
“However he excused himself on the pretext of wanting to use the toilet and disappeared on his mother, who later lodged a police report.”
According to Chandra, the man told police that he was very stressed up before his diving excursion as he had not taken his medicine for two days as they were in his mother’s possession.
An ambulance later came and took the man to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital 2 for medical attention.
In LAHAD DATU, a total of 27 illegal immigrants were detained in an integrated operation involving various agencies in Kampung Sabah Baru here early Saturday.
District police chief ACP Hamzah Ahmad said in the five-hour operation which ended at 7am, the operation team picked up 24 Filipinos and three Indonesians, aged between four and 50.
“Those detained comprised 11 men, five women and 11 children. A total of 230 people from 122 houses in the water village were screened,” he said in a statement. - Borneo Today
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