KOTA TINGGI, Sept 3 — The body of one of the three teenagers who went missing while bathing at Tanjung Lompat Beach, Kota Tinggi was found at 1.53 pm today.
Tanjung Sedili Zone Maritime headquarters operations officer Lieutenant Commander Mohamed Shafiee Bakar said Muhammad Thaqif Rayyan Rumainoor, 16, was found floating about 800 metres from the location where the first victim, Alif Taqiuddin Kamal Hasrul, was found yesterday.
He said the victim’s body was safely brought to the shore at around 2.50 pm this afternoon and was confirmed dead by health officials.
“The family has also been identified and confirmed that the body is that of the victim who went missing yesterday,” he said at a press conference at the scene of the incident, here today.
He said the victim’s body has been taken for a post-mortem at the Kota Tinggi Hospital.
He said the search for Muhammad Adib Hafiy Kamal and Mohamad Haiman Fitri Supian, both 16 years old, was ongoing, with a search radius of seven nautical miles from the northwest of the beach.
“The search with the other agencies will continue until the victim is found,” he said.
Yesterday, Kota Tinggi deputy district police chief DSP Mohd Syamsuri Mohamad was reported to have said that the body of the first victim, Alif Taqiuddin, was found about 500 metres from the location where he was reported missing.
Fire and Rescue Service Department announced that it received an emergency call at 8.19 am regarding the incident, with six 16-year-old victims being part of a group of 15 people who had come to camp in the area for the past two days.
However, two of them were successfully rescued by the public, while the other four were missing and feared drowned. — Bernama
