KOTA KINABALU: Hopes of finding more survivors from Thursday’s capsize of a wooden cargo vessel are growing dim as rescuers recovered two more bodies in the treacherous Banggi waters off northern Sabah.
By 3pm yesterday, searchers had recovered the bodies of Akif Mazlan Zaini, six, and Haizum Nazirah Sudin, 18, floating close to where the boat had capsized, taking the death toll to five – all of them family members of former assemblyman Yahya Othman, 61.
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