SUNGAI BULOH: Some 50 members of the Sungai Plong mosque had to carry out a cleansing process at various sections of the building after a wild boar entered the premises on Wednesday night.
The mosque nazir, Hussin Rani, said they were helped by firemen and staff of the Wildlife and National Parks Department and the Selangor Mufti’s office.
“We identified that half of the mosque needed to be cleansed before these areas can be used again. We will be doing this to the floor and walls, but the carpets will have to be destroyed,” he said.
Hussin said the cost to replace the carpets alone was expected to be about RM34,000.
“We should be doing so at the latest by this (yesterday) evening. I am just glad that no one was injured badly by the incident,” he said.
For the meantime, he said, those who wanted to pray could still do so in the areas which were not affected, adding that the whole process should have been completed by this morning.
In the 8pm incident on Wednesday night, a member of the congregation was injured when he was gored by the wild boar.
The animal was reported to have chased several children but they managed to escape. It then entered the mosque and attacked the people inside.
It was later shot dead by a member of the congregation who happened to have a shotgun.