Boat ferrying students capsizes; two girls missing
BETONG: Two school girls on their way home from school are feared to have drowned after a boat carrying 11 students overturned in Sungai Rimbas, near here yesterday. When a search and rescue operation was called off late yesterday evening the two girls had not been found.
Betong police chief DSP Bukhari Saffai said that the incident happened around noon when the boat was ferrying students from SMK Saribas. The victims have been identified as Nurjanah Suut and Norakma Abdillah, both 14. By The incident happened when the boat the students were on overturned after being hit by strong waves created by a larger boat.
“There were 13 persons on the boat (including the driver and a father of one of the students) when it overturned after it was hit by strong waves from another boat which was passing though the Lubuk Betanak area there,” DSP Bukhari said when contacted. DSP Bukhari said that passengers in two other boats nearby managed to rescue the remaining nine students. According to him, it was only after the students were rescued that the two were found to be missing.
“However, efforts to locate the two Form Two students failed at that time,” he said. Search and rescue operations will continue today with help from the Fire and Rescue Services Department (Bomba) Diving Unit.
Betong police chief DSP Bukhari Saffai said that the incident happened around noon when the boat was ferrying students from SMK Saribas. The victims have been identified as Nurjanah Suut and Norakma Abdillah, both 14. By The incident happened when the boat the students were on overturned after being hit by strong waves created by a larger boat.
“There were 13 persons on the boat (including the driver and a father of one of the students) when it overturned after it was hit by strong waves from another boat which was passing though the Lubuk Betanak area there,” DSP Bukhari said when contacted. DSP Bukhari said that passengers in two other boats nearby managed to rescue the remaining nine students. According to him, it was only after the students were rescued that the two were found to be missing.
“However, efforts to locate the two Form Two students failed at that time,” he said. Search and rescue operations will continue today with help from the Fire and Rescue Services Department (Bomba) Diving Unit.
Source : The Borneo Post
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