Ten-year-old boy from Pontian, Johor, panicked when he got his head stuck in a traffic cone while playing with his friends.
Photo via Facebook (Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Malaysia Negeri Johor)
The New Straits Times reported that the boy was playing with his friends at school when he put the cone on his head way too tightly, and then later got stuck for 30 minutes.
The student’s friends and teachers tried to pull his head out of the cone, but were unsuccessful.
The fire department was called to free the student, “Six firefighters rushed to the scene with an SOS Rescue Tool after receiving a call about the incident at about 1:28 pm,” said Pontian Fire and Rescue Station operations commander, Mohd Ezal Azman.
He added that his team spent 20 minutes trying to free the boy, by cutting through the cone using a rescue tool.
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Firefighters left the scene after making sure that the boy was okay.
By: Aishah Akashah Ahadiat
