The unemployed Malay man, who is also a father of two children, began consuming alcoholic drinks at his house at Lorong Foochow around noon time after which half an hour later he began to behave strangely.
According to his wife Noraini, she was with the couple's two sons, aged five and six, in the house when her husband suddenly began behaving in a weird manner roughly half an hour after he started drinking.
"He began peeling off strips of wood from the wall of our house and swallowed them in front of me. I tried to stop him, but he bit my finger and stripped down to his underwear before diving into the river behind our house," said the wife, adding that her husband surfaced at the other end of the river and hid himself behind the nipah trunks lining the river bank.
In fear for his safety concerned villagers called in the police and rescue personnel.
Faced with no other option, rescuers paddled a small boat across the river and cornered the drunkard before subduing him.
He was then taken back across to safety, before being taken away by the police the man began behaving and sound like monkey while munching on a handful of branches and leaves.
The wife believed the husband might be possessed by an unknown spirit of the jungle.
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