KOTA KINABALU: A viral WhatsApp message claiming that “strangers” who might have fled southern Philippines to escape a military assault landed at a remote village in northern Sabah’s Pitas district is not true.
Pitas assemblyman Datuk Bolkiah Ismail said the “strangers” who landed along the shores Kg Pinggan Pinggan were actually fishermen based in Sandakan who had stopped over early Monday.
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