KOTA KINABALU: A thief was hospitalised after falling from the third flood of Kompleks Api-Api downtown here when he tried to flee with a woman’s handbag this afternoon. Following the 12.40pm incident, the suspect who has yet to be identified is being treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital here. It was made to understand that the suspect broke into a housing unit at the fifth floor of the building, and ran off with a woman’s handbag believing it contained cash and important documents. “When I could not find my handbag I went downstairs to inform the guard and check if stranger had entered the building. “The guard told me my handbag had been found and was with the police, and that the thief was in the hospital after falling off the building,” she said when met at the scene.

Source: New Strait Times May 20, 2018 09:33 UTC