Compiled ZAKIAH KOYA, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
A MAN in India bit off his wife’s finger and swallowed it following a fight, Malaysia Nanban reported.
Vijaya Kumar, 45, and Pushpa, 40, from Kerala, have been married for 23 years and have two children. After a misunderstanding between them following the birth of their second child, the couple became estranged with Pushpa living apart with the kids.
A few days ago, Vijaya went to Pushpa’s house and got into an argument, which escalated into a physical altercation.
During the fight, the man bit off part of his wife’s finger and refused to give the digit back, chewing on it and swallowing it instead. He then fled when neighbours rushed to get Pushpa to a hospital after hearing her pained screams.Police have arrested Vijaya.
> After a pair of newly-weds and their families completed the Aadi Perukku rituals and left, a temple in Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan, had to clean up the mess they left behind, Makkal Osai reported.
The festival, which falls on the fourth month of the Tamil calendar Aadi, sees newly-weds release sacred flower garlands used during their weddings into rivers or other water bodies. The garlands thrown into the sea would be washed up on the beach after some time.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
