KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian ghost-busters were called in to exorcise spirits at a national service training camp after two groups of youths claiming to have seen ghosts became hysterical, a report said on Thursday.

On Sunday night, 13 girls and three boys at a camp in southern Negeri Sembilan state went berserk and started screaming that their toilets were haunted, the New Straits Times said. They were hospitalised and discharged the next day.

The perceived hauntings continued with another four girls becoming hysterical late Tuesday after claiming to have seen the same apparitions in the toilets, the daily said.

Muslim faith healer Abu Bakar Hassan and his assistants were summoned from Kuala Lumpur, and a camp instructor told the newspaper that Abu Bakar had ?caught the spirits and thrown them into the sea.? The group also spent time ?cleasing? the area, he said.

The instructor said all the affected girls were having their periods when they became hysterical. There are 508 trainees at the camp.

Malaysia started non-military national service training for 18-year-old youths in February to boost patriotism and racial integration.

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