KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian authorities were yesterday searching for nine people missing at sea after an overloaded fishing boat carrying illegal Indonesian migrants capsized off southern Malaysia, killing at least two.
The fibreglass boat overturned and sank late on Monday with around 70 people on board as a patrol vessel was pursuing it off the state of Johor. Those aboard wanted to sneak out of Malaysia to return to their homes in Indonesia to celebrate the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Fifty-nine passengers and the two boatmen were rescued.
AFP
