A cleaner lost her handbag after an unidentified man allegedly stole it from a trolley while she was carrying out her duties outside Kedai Padang Awam in Temerloh on Tuesday morning.
Temerloh district police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Nasyim Bahron said the incident happened at around 9.20am while the complainant was sweeping rubbish.
He said the woman realised her handbag, which had been placed on the trolley, was missing.
“An examination of CCTV footage revealed that an unidentified man had taken the bag,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.
The bag contained an undisclosed amount of coins worth less than RM15, an insurance card and spectacles valued at RM150.
Mohd Nasyim said the suspect was described as a bald man, but his ethnicity has yet to be identified.
The case is being investigated under Section 379 of the Penal Code for theft.
