MUAR: Three friends who crossed the Straits of Malacca from Sumatra with a cargo of bakau wood for sale here ended up swimming in the sea for about seven hours.
Guntur Mahyudin, 23, Deddy Norshah, 22, and Zon Afrizal Jaafar, 28, all from a village in Bengkalis, Sumatra, lost their vessel after it was hit by a storm about 10 nautical miles off Pulau Besar in Malacca.
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