One run-down area located on Tawau Bay is known as the Ice Box. Its real name is Kampung Titingan, part of Sabah, Malaysia.

"This is a transit point for narcotics before they are distributed elsewhere, including Indonesia," said Fauzi Mutalib, a police officer in Pondok Polis Titingan, on Wednesday three weeks ago.

A 1.5-meter-high network of bridges connects 14 blocks of stilt houses at the 'Ice Box'. The bridges, which have no railings, creak lou