SEREMBAN — Seorang wanita didakwa di Mahkamah Majistret Trafik, di sini hari ini, atas pertuduhan membenarkan anak lelakinya yang berusia 10 tahun memandu sebuah kereta awal bulan lalu.

Pekerja pembersihan berusia 45 tahun itu didakwa sebagai pemilik sebuah Toyota Corolla, telah membenarkan seorang kanak-kanak berusia 10 tahun memandu kenderaan berkenaan.

Perbuatan itu dilakukan kira-kira jam 9 malam di Jalan Arowana 2, Taman Arowana Impian, di sini, 3 September lalu.

Wanita berkenaan didakwa mengikut Seksyen 39(5) Akta Pengangkutan Jalan 1987 dan boleh dikenakan denda sehingga RM2,000 atau penjara sehingga enam bulan atau kedua-duanya.

Dia yang tidak diwakili peguam dan dihadapkan di hadapan Majistret Marlissa Mohd Fahmy mengaku bersalah, namun merayu denda rendah kerana berpendapatan RM1,500 sebulan dan menanggung tiga anak masih bersekolah serta suami yang sakit.

Timbalan Pendakwa Raya M Pusppa memohon mahkamah menjatuhkan hukuman setimpal dan berbentuk pengajaran kepada tertuduh dengan mengambil kira keseriusan kesalahan yang dilakukan.

Tambahnya, perbuatan itu bukan hanya membahayakan diri kanak-kanak terbabit yang ketika kejadian, turut membawa seorang lagi kanak-kanak berusia sembilan tahun, selain merisikokan keselamatan orang awam.

Mahkamah kemudian mengenakan hukuman denda RM700 atau penjara tujuh hari jika gagal bayar. Tertuduh membayar denda yang ditetapkan.

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KOTA BHARU — Seorang penjual air balang didakwa di Mahkamah Sesyen, di sini hari ini atas tiga pertuduhan melakukan amang seksual terhadap anak angkat perempuan di Ketereh, Oktober tahun lalu.

Lelaki berusia 45 tahun itu menghadapi tiga pertuduhan di hadapan Hakim Zulkifli Abllah, melakukan jenayah berkenaan terhadap mangsa berusia 12 tahun 10 bulan ketika kejadian.

Tertuduh didakwa berbuat demikian ketika dia dan mangsa menaiki motosikal di sebuah kampung dan di sebuah rumah di Ketereh.

Dia dituduh mengikut Seksyen 14(a) Akta Kesalahan-Kesalahan Seksual Terhadap Kanak-Kanak 2017 dan boleh dihukum mengikut Seksyen 14 akta sama. Jika sabit kesalahan, boleh dihukum penjara sehingga 20 tahun dan sebatan.

Tertuduh yang diwakili peguam, Mohd Firdaus Zainal Abidin bagaimanapun mengaku tidak bersalah.

Pendakwaan dilakukan Timbalan Pendakwa Raya, Kamarul Hasyime Rosli yang memohon mahkamah tidak menawarkan jaminan kerana dikhuatiri tertuduh menganggu mangsa.

Mohd Firdaus pula memohon jaminan dibenarkan atas alasan anak guamnya perlu menanggung isteri dan tiga anak dengan pendapatan bulanan RM2,500 sebagai peniaga air balang.

Mahkamah membenarkan tertuduh diikat jamin RM20,000 dengan seorang penjamin, namun melarang lelaki berkenaan menganggu mangsa dan saksi, selain melapor diri di Balai Polis Kok Lanas setiap bulan serta 7 Oktober depan untuk sebutan semula kes.

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IPOH — Polis Perak akan menggunakan saluran diplomatik termasuk Polis Antarabangsa (INTERPOL) bagi menjejaki dan menahan suspek warga Indonesia berhubung kes penemuan mayat bayi yang ditemui ditanam di parkir berlantai simen sebuah rumah di Taman Sri Rokam, di sini, pada 28 Ogos lalu.

Ketua Polis Perak, Datuk Azizi Mat Aris berkata, ketika ini usaha mengesan suspek iaitu seorang wanita warga Indonesia yang juga penyewa terakhir rumah berkenaan masih dijalankan, dan polis juga ketika ini tidak pasti mengenai keberadaan wanita itu sama ada masih di Malaysia atau sudah pulang ke negara asalnya.

“(Suspek) belum lagi dikenal pasti. Kita tengah jejaki suspek dan siasatan masih lagi diteruskan.

“Kita akan bekerjasama dengan agensi-agensi lain seperti Imigresen (Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia) selain menggunakan semua (kekuatan) risikan kita.

“Mungkin kalau kalau kita kenal pasti subjek itu sudah balik (ke negara asal), maka kita akan menggunakan saluran diplomatik melalui INTERPOL,” katanya dalam sidang akhbar selepas majlis Perhimpunan Bulanan Ketua Polis Perak bulan September 2024 di Ibu Pejabat Polis Kontinjen (IPK) Perak, di sini, hari ini.

Sebelum ini, Ketua Polis Daerah Ipoh, Asisten Komisioner Abang Zainal Abidin Abang Ahmad ketika dihubungi berkata, hasil bedah siasat mendapati punca kematian bayi itu tidak dapat dipastikan berikutan keadaan pereputan mayat (uncertained due to decomposition).

Abang Zainal Abidin berkata, pihaknya juga tidak dapat dipastikan sama ada bayi itu meninggal dunia selepas dilahirkan atau sebaliknya.

Beliau berkata, tidak terdapat sebarang kecederaan ditemui pada mayat bayi perempuan itu dengan ia dipercayai berumur tujuh bulan ketika dilahirkan.

Terdahulu, media melaporkan polis sedang mengesan seorang wanita warga Indonesia yang pernah menyewa di rumah tempat penemuan mayat bayi di bawah lantai simen itu.

Berdasarkan penerangan pemilik rumah berkenaan, rumah itu disewakan sejak tiga tahun lepas kepada seorang wanita warga Indonesia dengan bayaran RM400 sebulan namun wanita itu telah melarikan diri sejak sebulan lalu.

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DAMASCUS — Israeli strikes in central Syria killed at least seven people late Sunday, including three civilians, a war monitor reported.

Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes there, targeting pro-Iranian groups in particular.

“The number of dead in the Israeli strikes on the Masyaf region stands at seven, namely three civilians, including a man and his son who were in a car, and four unidentified soldiers,” said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a vast network of sources inside the country.

The attack also wounded at least 15 others and destroyed military facilities in the area, the Observatory said.

“Thirteen violent explosions rang out in the zone housing scientific research centers in Masyaf where pro-Iranian groups and weapons development experts are present,” the group said in an earlier statement.

The Syrian state news agency Sana had previously reported five killed and 19 wounded near Masyaf, citing a medical source.

“Around 11:20 p.m. (2020 GMT) on Sunday, the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the northwest of Lebanon targeting a number of military sites in the central region,” Sana reported, citing a military source.

“Our air defense shot down some missiles.”

Israeli air raids in Syria have intensified since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza.

Israeli authorities rarely comment on individual strikes in Syria, but have repeatedly said they will not allow arch-enemy Iran to expand its presence there.

At the end of August, three pro-Iranian fighters were killed in the central region of Homs in strikes attributed to Israel, the Observatory said.

A few days later, the Israeli military said it had killed an unspecified number of fighters belonging to Hamas ally Islamic Jihad in a strike in Syria near the Lebanese border.

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BETONG — Pemandu ambulans dan seorang jururawat parah selepas ambulans dinaiki mereka merempuh sebuah lori yang di parkir di tepi jalan, dalam kemalangan di Jalan Memaloi, Skrang di sini, kira-kira jam 4.20 pagi tadi.

Jurucakap Pusat Gerakan Operasi Jabatan Bomba Dan Penyelamat Malaysia (JBPM) Sarawak berkata, pihaknya menerima pangilan kecemasan mengenai kejadian itu sekitar jam 4.24 pagi, dan lapan anggota dari Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat (BBP) Betong ke lokasi kejadian.

“Kemalangan membabitkan sebuah van ambulans Kementerian Kesihatan (KKM) melanggar belakang lori treler yang berhenti di bahu jalan.

“Terdapat dua orang mangsa cedera parah iaitu kakitangan KKM, seorang lelaki dewasa (pemandu) dan seorang perempuan dewasa (penumpang),” katanya menerusi satu kenyataan yang dilaporkan Buletin TV3.

Beliau berkata, kedua-dua mangsa bagaimanapun diselamatkan orang awam sebelum ketibaan anggota bomba di lokasi kejadian.

Katanya, mangsa iaitu pemandu ambulans berkenaan dikejarkan ke Hospital Sri Aman manakala mangsa kedua, jururawat wanita di bawa ke hospital Betong untuk mendapatkan rawatan lanjut.

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LIMA — At least one person was killed and 16 others treated for smoke inhalation as wildfires raged in northern Peru’s Lambayeque region, local authorities said Sunday.

The fatal victim, a 40-year-old female farmer in the town of Incahuasi, suffered burns all over her body, according to Radio Programas del Peru, a radio and television broadcasting company in Peru.

She had been rushed to the local clinic but succumbed to her severe injuries. Several locals were treated for smoke inhalation and later discharged, as they were “out of danger,” the network reported.

Peru’s National Meteorology and Hydrology Service warned that from Sunday through Wednesday, atmospheric conditions could lead to the “start and spread of forest fires.”

The absence of precipitation is expected to persist in these regions, along with decreasing humidity and increasing daytime temperatures, it added.

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ADEN, Yemen — At least 15 people were killed and three others injured when a passenger bus fell off a mountain road in Yemen’s southern province of Lahj on Sunday, a security official told Xinhua.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the accident occurred in the Maqatrah district on a hazardous road linking the provinces of Aden and Taiz. He added the bus fell from a steep slope and plunged into a rocky valley below after the driver lost control due to a brake failure.

The official confirmed that the death toll includes women and children. Eyewitnesses described the accident as “horrific,” noting that the impact was so severe that some victims were ejected from the vehicle.

Maqatrah, known for its dangerous mountain routes, has seen numerous accidents in recent years. Local observers said the incident highlights the broader impact of Yemen’s decade-long civil war on civilian safety and infrastructure. With main interprovincial roads often blocked by warring factions, civilians are forced to use perilous alternative routes, including hazardous mountain passes.

Yemen’s crisis began in late 2014 when the Houthi group took control of the capital, Sanaa, leading to a Saudi-led military intervention and escalating into what the United Nations now describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

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DAMASCUS — Israel carried out air strikes on a scientific research facility and an arms depot in central Syria on Sunday night, a war monitor reported.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack targeted sites in Masyaf, in western Hama province. Ambulances were seen rushing to the area, the Britain-based group said, adding that a large fire was seen near Wadi al-Oyoun in western Hama following the strikes.

Syrian state television reported that air defenses responded to “Israeli aggression” in central Syria. The Observatory said several missiles were intercepted.

The extent of casualties and damage was not immediately clear.

Israel has conducted numerous strikes in Syria in recent years, often targeting what it says are Iranian-linked and Hezbollah positions.

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