General : Toddler Reported Missing During Family Outing In Gopeng

IPOH, Nov 9 — A toddler, aged two years and ten months, went missing during a family outing at Dataran Sungai Jahang, Kampung Jahang, near Gopeng, in the early afternoon today. The Perak Fire and Rescue Department's Operations Division was alerted at 12.06pm and dispatched a team from the Gopeng Fire and Rescue Station to the scene.

Assistant Director Sabarodzi Nor Ahmad reported that the search, involving the police, locals and a nearby tour company that provided eight rafting boats, had expanded to cover a four-kilometre radius from the spot where the child was last seen. By 3.45pm, the search had been extended further, with a control post already established at the site.

Personnel from the Kampar Fire and Rescue Station joined the effort by monitoring the river downstream near Kampar, with the search operation still underway. In a separate incident on Pulau Pangkor, a 38-year-old Myanmar national is missing after reportedly having a seizure and falling into the sea. The Pangkor Fire and Rescue Station was alerted at 12.54pm, with the Operations Commander informed that the victim had fallen from a boat at the jetty. Rescue efforts to locate the individual are still in progress.