KUCHING, May 10 -- The disposal of the carcass of a dog reported to have attacked a woman while she was jogging at a park in Stutong last Friday into a river is an offence under local cleanliness by-laws, said Kuching South Mayor Dato Wee Hong Seng.

Wee said although public anger over the incident was understandable, disposing of the carcass into a river remained against the law.

"If you dispose of things into the river or elsewhere, of course it is against the law because that is not the proper thing to do. It falls under the cleanliness by-law.

"You cannot simply throw anything into a river or any place you like," he told reporters when asked during the Kuching South City Council (MBKS) Community Market and Hawker Reunion Luncheon at...