Senate president Mutang Tagal dies

Source: Daily Express Sabah

PETALING JAYA: Senate president Mutang Tagal died today. He was 69 years old.

The Dewan Negara president's office said he died at 11.46am at the National Heart Institute (IJN) in Kuala Lumpur.

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"Further information on his burial will be announced later," it said in a statement.

Mutang had been undergoing treatment at IJN after falling ill during a working trip to Azerbaijan.

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A trained lawyer, he came from the Lun Bawang tribe and was the brother of the late Judson Sakai Tagal, a former Sarawak assistant minister of communications and the first Ba Kelalan assemblyman.

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Mutang, from Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu, served as Bukit Mas MP for two terms from 1982 to 1990.

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