Fire Dept: Two men found dead in separate incidents in Penang drain and Perak river
BUTTERWORTH, Sept 11 — Two men were found dead in separate incidents in Penang and Perak today, one in a drain nea...
Penang and Perak witnessed the tragic deaths of two men in separate incidents on September 11. In Penang, Ooi Chai Siang, a 37-year-old man, was found dead in a drain near SMK Tun Hussein Onn in Taman Kelisa Emas. The Penang Fire and Rescue Department was alerted by the police at 12:10pm and dispatched a team from the Perai Fire and Rescue Station to retrieve the body. The body was later handed over to the police and sent for a post-mortem examination to ascertain the cause of death.
In Perak, a 38-year-old man tragically drowned while attempting to retrieve his boat that had drifted away from a fish cage in Sungai Perak. The incident occurred around 5pm yesterday, near Batu 18, Kampung Kuchai, close to Bota Kiri. The Perak JBPM Operations assistant director, Sabarodzi Nor Ahmad, revealed that a search operation involving 30 personnel, including the K9 Unit and Water Rescue Team, was launched within a six-kilometre radius of the spot where the man had jumped.
The man's body was discovered floating by the PPDA team and was subsequently brought to shore before being handed over to the police for further investigation.
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