The individual and 13 others had been found loitering at a lodging house at the Jelutong fish landing jetty. FMTNews MCO
The man swims out into the sea to escape from police at the fish landing jetty in Jelutong, Penang, yesterday.
GEORGE TOWN: A man jumped into the sea and swam out for about 50m at a fish landing jetty in Jelutong here yesterday to escape arrest by police for flouting the movement control order.The police decided to leave the man, in his 20s, alone for fear that he might swim out further to sea and endanger his life.
However, 13 of his friends, aged between 21 and 70, were arrested after they were found loitering inside a lodging house at the jetty at about 5.30pm.Northeast district police chief Soffian Santong said police also arrested three men, including a Bangladeshi, at the Taman Manggis People’s Housing Project here for loitering in a motorcycle parking lot.
Also arrested were four men, aged 20 to 40, for bird-hunting in the forest area of Tanjung Tokong here.FOR THE LATEST DATA ON THE COVID-19 SITUATION IN MALAYSIA
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