Two Indonesian workers die in fishing trawler mishap


Police inspecting the fishing trawler off Pulau Mengalum on Wednesday.

KOTA KINABALU: Two Indonesian workers died in a tragic deep-sea fishing accident off the coast of Pulau Mengalum here.

In the incident on Tuesday (March 13), Gading Abdullah, 21, and Muhamad Mansur, 31, were reportedly entangled in fishing gear while pulling the net onto the trawler at about 8.30am.

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