{"id":36868,"date":"2019-08-09T21:15:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T13:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=36868"},"modified":"2019-08-09T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T13:16:35","slug":"mmea-rescues-two-brunei-fishermen-nine-others-still-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=36868","title":{"rendered":"MMEA rescues two Brunei fishermen, nine others still missing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KOTA KINABALU, Aug\u00a09 \u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Two out of 11 fishermen from Brunei whose boat\u00a0\u00a0drifted into Malaysian waters were found safe around Pulau Tiga at noon today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) in a statement said one of the victims appeared weak and was brought to the&nbsp;Sepanggar jetty before being taken to hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said the agency received a distress call from the Brunei National Search and Rescue Coordination Committee on the incident on Aug 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Maritime Rescue Coordinating Centre (MRCC) in Putrajaya relayed the information and sought&nbsp;assistance to locate the victims,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Local seamen also informed the Kota Kinabalu Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre (MRSC) that they saw nine people wearing safety jackets in Semarang waters last Wednesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0A\u00a0Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) aircraft was mobilised to trace the fishermen at their last known location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU, Aug\u00a09 \u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Two out of 11 fishermen from Brunei whose boat\u00a0\u00a0drifted into Malaysian waters were found safe around Pulau Tiga at noon today. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) in a statement said one of the victims appeared weak and was brought to the&nbsp;Sepanggar jetty before being taken to hospital for further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":36871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868"}],"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=36868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}