MIRI: A 22-year-old housewife was arrested in northern Sarawak after her three-year-old stepson was allegedly smothered to death. Sarawak CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Dev Kumar said the woman was arrested at her house in Limbang at about 7pm on Sunday. "On July 27, at the woman sent her stepson to the Limbang Hospital where he was pronounced dead. She claimed that she found her stepson unconscious in the bathroom," said SAC Dev. "On July 30, a post-mortem confirmed that the boy's death was due to suffocating," he said, adding that police have reclassified the case as murder.

Source: The Star July 31, 2017 01:52 UTC