12-year-old who went missing after swimming found
SARIKEI: A girl who went missing after swimming in a river was found safe about 100 metres from her last known location on Wednesday night at Jalan Bayong/Simpang Koko, Nanga Ribong. State Fire Department operations centre informed that the 12-year-old girl was found around 9.30pm by villagers. Earlier on that same day, the girl went […]
King Ritchie goes AWOL
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist, ethologist and popular-science writer Last weekend, I received an urgent call from the Semenggoh Wildlife Center informing me that my “foster” son Ritchie had disappeared. It was not the first time that the orangutan […]
Search continues for missing Indonesian
BETONG: The search and rescue (SAR) operation for a missing Indonesian has entered the second day. The man, identified as Suhaidi, had gone fishing in a forest at Salcra Batang Ai, Lubuk Antu, near here on Tuesday (Nov 10). “SAR operations started around 8.30pm on Nov 10 with a search radius of 1km,” according to […]
Foreign sailor feared drowned
MALUDAM: A foreign barge sailor is feared drowned after falling into Batang Lupar River near Triso Ferry pier last Saturday (Oct 31). The victim, identified as Saif Ali, 21, an Indian national, was reported to have slipped and fell off the barge while refuelling the water pump engine at about 5.30pm. The operations centre of […]
VESSEL-PLATFORM COLLISION: One person dead, four missing
MIRI: A maintenance vessel capsized about 7.7 nautical miles off Miri waters at 6.30am on Tuesday (Oct 27). A search and rescue operations (SAR) was immediately activated to locate the victims after a distress call on the incident was made. One hundred and twenty-one crew members were rescued at 8.45am, with one of them was […]
Fallen Indian national feared drown
KUCHING: A male Indian national is suspected to have drowned after he fell off from a vessel near Isthmus Bridge, Jalan Dermaga, here today. According to State Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba), a distress call about the incident was received at 3.12pm. The victim was identified as Santosh Kumar, aged 23. Upon receiving the call, […]
Senior citizen still missing after three days
BAU: A senior citizen has gone missing at Pekan Tondong here after failing to return home at Jalan Selalang since Wednesday afternoon (Sept 9). The 77-year-old male victim identified as Kuan Joon Ted was believed to be senile. He is often seen walking around the Pan Borneo route from Selalang to Tondong back and forth. […]
Missing man returns safe and sound
SERIAN: A disabled man who was feared missing at Kampung Semukoi was found safe after he was reported missing since Wednesday. The man was said to have returned home by himself while a search and rescue (SAR) operation was activated to search for him. The operation comprised five firefighters, a K9 squad, three policemen, six […]
Body of missing man found afloat
KANOWIT: The body of a man reported missing at Nanga Sengkabang Matau in Sungai Machan on June 10, was found on Friday. The State Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) in a statement, said the body was found afloat around 9.45am about 5km from where he was last seen. The victim, identified as Jonathan Madang, 40, […]
Mother pleads for first born to come home
MELAKA:- “This Syawal has lost its meaning…I miss him very much, he’s my first child and the backbone of our family,” lamented Asiah Basiron whose son Muhd Akmal Sharul Nizam Ab Rahim, 22, has been missing for eight months. The mother of six said her son did not return home after leaving for work at […]
