JEMPOL: A 59-year-old man was found dead behind a house in Felda Lui Timur here, this morning.
He is believed to have been struck on the head by a falling coconut.
The victim, Azemi Jamaludin, is thought to have been attempting to pluck the coconut from a 10-metre tree using a fruit picker when the incident occurred at 10.30am.
"The victim was found by his 18-year-old daughter with his mouth and head covered in blood," Jempol district police chief Superintendent Noorzainy Mohd Noor said.
The victim's body was sent to the Jempol Hospital for a post-mortem and the case has been classified as “sudden death.”