{"id":11643,"date":"2019-03-03T12:39:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T04:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11643"},"modified":"2019-03-03T12:39:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T04:39:39","slug":"overturned-boat-third-day-of-sar-near-nunuyan-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11643","title":{"rendered":"Overturned boat: Third day of SAR near Nunuyan Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2aad26d1c4ded93d8f1977e1ec2dd1205c79f3718ef13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11645\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2aad26d1c4ded93d8f1977e1ec2dd1205c79f3718ef13.png 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2aad26d1c4ded93d8f1977e1ec2dd1205c79f3718ef13-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2aad26d1c4ded93d8f1977e1ec2dd1205c79f3718ef13-598x400.png 598w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2aad26d1c4ded93d8f1977e1ec2dd1205c79f3718ef13-555x370.png 555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy Bernama images<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>SANDAKAN, March 3&nbsp;(Bernama) &#8212; The search and rescue operation (SAR) for boat mishap victims in the waters of Pulau Nunuyan near here is continued today after it was postponed at 6 pm yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement from the Sandakan Zone Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) here, the operation was continued at 7 am involving a search area of 187 nautical square miles divided into eight sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine&nbsp;assets were mobilised to find four&nbsp;more victims who were still missing in the 6 am incident on Thursday (Feb 28) involving MMEA (three assets), Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) (three assets),&nbsp;Sandakan Marine Police Force (two assets) and the Malaysia Civil Defence Force (one asset) with&nbsp;111 personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The missing victims were two men, aged 40 and 27 years, and two girls, aged eight years and one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five victims of the incident were rescued by a RMN combat boat after they were seen clinging to the overturned boat&nbsp;at 12.15 pm on Friday (March 1). They had been hanging on to the boat for 18 hours after the incident took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The body of another victim, a&nbsp;seven-year-old boy, Kimar Herman was found four hours later about 100 metres from where the boat was found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, the body of a 42-year-old woman was found at 12.44 pm by fishermen in the waters between Pulau Nunuyan and Pulau Berhala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boat was believed to be heading for Sandakan from Pulau Taganak, Philippines when it overturned due to the turbulent sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANDAKAN, March 3&nbsp;(Bernama) &#8212; The search and rescue operation (SAR) for boat mishap victims in the waters of Pulau Nunuyan near here is continued today after it was postponed at 6 pm yesterday. According to a statement from the Sandakan Zone Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) here, the operation was continued at 7 am involving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}