Close call for 25 on timber container


MIRI: A crew of 25 men on a foreign timber container had a close shave when their 13,000-tonne vessel tilted when loading timber off the coast of Bintulu.

The incident happened at about 3.30pm yesterday about three nautical miles off Kemena port, some 200km south of here.

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