A Malaysian woman is trying to beat a world record set by another woman in neighbouring Thailand for the longest stay in a room full of scorpions, news reports said on Sunday.
Nur Malena Hassan (27) on Saturday entered a glass box with 6 000 scorpions at a shopping arcade in Kuantan town, about 250km east of Kuala Lumpur, the Mingguan Malaysia newspaper reported.
The current record is held by Kanchana Ketkaw of Thailand, who lived with more than 3 000 scorpions for 32 days in 2002.
Nur Malena, who is known in Malaysia as the ”Scorpion Queen”, will leave the glass box for only 15 minutes a day. She hopes to live in the box for 36 days, Mingguan Malaysia reported. — Sapa-DPA