Two apologise for groping deejay at festival

Compiled by JAROD LIM, FATIMAH ZAINAL and R. ARAVINTHAN

TWO men publicly apologised to South Korean DJ Soda in a YouTube video for groping her during the recent Music Circus festival in Sennan Long Park in Osaka, Japan, China Press reported.

In the video, they said they were under the influence of alcohol and had acted inappropriately towards the 35-year-old.

Their apology came after the event organiser, TryHard Japan, lodged a police report on the incident.

Previously, a video of the men’s brazen act posted by DJ Soda went viral.

Both men, one aged 21 and the other a college student, have surrendered themselves to the police.

The apology video was posted on Japanese businessman Yuta Misaki’s YouTube account.

Misaki also accompanied the two to the police station to have their statement recorded a few days after the incident.

Police are still investigating the matter.

> It was fatal attraction for a man from Hegang City in China’s Heilongjiang province when on his first date with the woman he got to know via a dating app , they bumped into the woman’s ex-lover.

The ex-boyfriend, when he saw the couple, stabbed the 21-year-old electrical appliances salesman six times at the restaurant, China Press reported.

The man was rushed to hospital but later succumbed to his injuries.

> A durian seller in Shanghai injured a young girl’s face after the thorny fruit slipped from his hands and fell on her.

Sin Chew Daily reported that the seller was handing the durian to the girl’s mother when the mishap occurred. The girl was standing beside her mother at the time.

The girl was rushed to hospital with a cut on her right cheek and was told that she required several treatments for the injury.

The durian seller was willing to compensate 2,000 yuan (RM1,290) but reluctant to foot the rest of her medical bills.

The dissatisfied mum then lodged a police report but the durian seller is now uncontactable.

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.