One thousand and one uses of stone mortar

For refusing to buy his wife a new dress for the coming Aidulfitri, a man in his 40s was injured in the head after his wife struck him with a mortar stone in an incident at a house in Kampung Baru, here, yesterday.

In the incident about the 20 year-old woman reported hit her husband after the couple argued for more than 10 minutes.

According to sources, it all started when the woman asked her husband to buy a new dress.