KOTA KINABALU: Firemen rescued a man believed to be high after sniffing glue when he was unable to come down from a bridge he had climbed in Sabah’s southwestern Beaufort district today.
It is learned that the man, in his 20s, had scaled one of the pillars of the bridge before sitting on a horizontal beam some 6m from the ground at about 10.30am.
A fire and rescue department spokesman said a team was sent to the area following a call at 10.44am.
“The team found that the man was stuck on the beam because he could not climb down the same way he climbed up earlier,” the spokesperson said.
Firemen subsequently used a ladder to rescue the man, who was later handed over to the police for further investigations.