KOTA KINABALU: An investigation has been ordered into a coral reef damaged by a barge ferrying building materials for a forward base at a popular dive site at Pulau Mabul in Sabah's east coast Semporna.
Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Jafry Ariffin said that the state's Environmental Protection Department (EPD) has been ordered to carry out the probe though the area did not come under the marine parks protection of Sabah Parks.
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