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Mandrowns performing religious ritual

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BESUT: A man drowned in the Lata Tembakah waterfall here after he and six friends conducted what police believe to be a religious ritual.Several picnickers tried in vain to administer CPR (cardiopulm­onary resuscitat­ion) on Chua Kim See, 46, who was found wedged between rocks at the waterfall at 4.45pm on Wednesday, said Besut police chief Supt Mohd Zamri Mohd Rowi.

He said Chua, who was from Tanah Merah, had gone to the third tier of the seven-tier cascading waterfall along with his friends for the suspected ritual, which was allegedly done with eyes closed.

Chua’s body was sent to the Besut Hospital for a post-mortem, which found that the victim had died from drowning. — Bernama

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