POLICE have classified the case of an elderly man who died during an operation to catch stray dogs in Taman Saga, Bentong, last Wednesday, as a sudden death.
Bentong district police chief Zaiham Mohd Kahar said a post-mortem carried out at the Bentong Hospital here revealed that the cause of death of the 79-year-old man was “respiratory arrest secondary to acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease”.