Five hours, one lorry: Civil Defence, villagers pull together to bury 23-year-old, 250kg man in Rantau Panjang

The Malaysian Civil Defence Force (APM) assisted in the burial of a 23-year-old man with an obesity-related condition, weighing 250 kilograms, in Rantau Panjang. The operation, which took nearly five hours from 11:01 am to 3:56 pm, involved transporting the deceased from Universiti Sains Malaysia Hospital to Masjid Al-Hidayah for the funeral prayer. The APM team, along with local villagers, worked together to facilitate the burial arrangements at the Gual Tinggi Islamic Cemetery.

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