It looked like an ordinary bank with workers collecting deposits and customers conducting transactions.

But it was a fake bank and it was opened for about a month near a real bank, Tamil dailies reported.

The workers of the real bank in Tamil Nadu thought that their bank had opened another branch near their workplace.

However, when they looked closely at the bank’s signboard, they discovered that there was an extra word added to the real bank’s name. They suspected something amiss and informed their manager.

The genuine bank’s manager G.S. Dasikumar went inside the fake bank and discovered the scam.

The police were called and they arrested four men. The customers did not know that they were inside a fake bank.

> A family in Klang was awakened by the sound of an explosion and found their car engulfed in flames in what was suspected to be an arson attack on Tuesday morning, Tamil dailies reported.

G. Jeyanthi, 43, said the car was parked in front of the Maha Mariamman Temple in Pandamaran under a tent.

The family, who lived next to the temple, had just finished helping out at the temple for a festival.

Jeyanthi claimed the fire could have been intentionally started by certain people unhappy over their temple’s activities.

> Found in translation is 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.





