Hunt for missing copter


KUCHING: The Sarawak elections went from seeking votes to desperately searching for a helicopter which went missing with several VIPs aboard.

The Eurocopter AS 350 carrying five passengers, including Plantation Indust­ries and Commodities Deputy Minister Datuk Noriah Kasnon, her husband and four others, had left Betong at 4.12pm and was headed to Kuching.

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