A lemang seller was arrested for assaulting a buyer, who claimed that he had bought lemang which was not properly cooked, in an incident at a roadside stall on Jalan Bukit Beruang Utama, near a petrol station in Malacca on Friday.

Melaka Tengah district police chief Christopher Patit said that in the 8 pm incident, the victim, a 61-year-old military veteran, suffered injuries to his left ear and right hand, due to being hit with a hollowed bamboo stick, and was treated at Malacca Hospital....