BUTTERWORTH, Feb. 21 -- Several snack vendors near SK Sungai Dua here have reportedly expressed sadness over the death of a Year Four pupil who is believed to have choked on an eyeball-shaped gummy.
New Straits Times reported that there were three vendors selling snacks around the school for students waiting for their parents, but none were selling the specific gummy.
A vendor who only wanted to be known as Kak Su, 46, said she had not sold such sweets for a long time and was recently inspected by the Penang Health Department and the Seberang Perai Municipal Council Licensing Division.
She stated that she runs a snack stall as a side business alongside selling banana fritters and chooses products carefully, having stopped selling the gum...