KOTA MARUDU: Enraged after failing to persuade his ex-wife to reconcile, a man attempted to kill her and their six-year-old son using a bakakuk (home-made shotgun) at a rubber and oil palm plantation in Kg Kerongkom Laut, here, on Sunday.
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District Police Chief Supt Mohd Izaan Abdullah said the son sustained gunshot wounds on his back and hip in the 2pm incident.
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He said a bakakuk, an empty bullet and two live bullets were seized from the 58-year-old suspect who was arrested on the same day.
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