Man allegedly attempts suicide over rejected love

A man allegedly attempted to take his own life at a hotel room in the city here on Tuesday, when the love of his life told him she was seeing another man.

In the incident, the 34-year-old man bound and confined the Indonesian woman before attempting to strangle himself with a rope while sprawled on a bed.

Alerted by hotel staff who heard the couple shouting and fighting in the room, a police team picked up the man and rescued the 28-year-old woman.

The suspect who sustained a neck injury has been remanded for a week to facilitate investigations.

Johor Baru South police chief, ACP Sulaiman Salleh said initial police investigations revealed the couple had been seeing each other for three years.

He said the man had asked the woman to meet him in a hotel room to thrash out some issues.

"However, when they met in the room, the woman informed him that she was now in a relationship with another man, triggering a fight between them.

"Hotel security guards who heard the commotion called the police," Sulaiman told a press conference here on Thursday.