Compiled by JUNAID IBRAHIM, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN

       A 36-YEAR-OLD man who was killed by his twin brother in Klang, had called his employer for help after the attack, reported Makkal Osai.

       The employer rushed to his aid.

       When he arrived at his house in Kampung Sri Cheeding, he found the victim, who was not named in the report, covered in blood and unconscious but alive.

       Although the victim was rushed to hospital, he died later that night.

       Police said the victim was stabbed by his twin brother following a dispute over the sharing of drugs.

       The attacker, who reportedly has 12 drug-related offences to his name, was arrested. The victim himself had drug-related offences in his criminal record, said Kuala Langat OCPD Supt Ahmad Ridhwan Mohd Nor@Saleh.

       > A man in Tamil Nadu, India, was killed after a liquor bottle he had tucked into his belt broke and impaled him, reported Malaysia Nanban.

       S. Venkatesan, 28, from Vellor, was on his way home from the liquor store on his bicycle during the incident.

       The man, who was inebriated, fell off his bicycle and landed on the bottle smashing it.

       The shards pierced his body.

       Passers-by who saw the seriously injured man, sent him to the hospital but he died from blood loss.

       Police are investigating the incident.

       The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.