Vandals paint a bad picture of murals


Walls 'attacked': (Right) A foreign tourist taking pictures of one of the vandalised murals which depicts a kuda kepang dancer in Jalan Masjid in Ipoh. (Left) Nurul Huda with her daughter Elyza Omer Shoil and her friend walking beside a wall that has been sprayed with graffiti in the same street.

IPOH: A large-scale project to paint 57 wall murals around here came to an abrupt halt when vandals painted graffiti on the walls.

Artist Eric Lai, 38, said he completed 33 pieces of artwork on the walls of several buildings at an alley behind Jalan Masjid and Jalan Sultan Iskandar here.

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