Semporna boat explosion incident: Boy's body exhumed from fresh grave, police searching for boy's father


KOTA KINABALU: Search and rescue operations for two missing people following an explosion on a pump boat in waters off Semporna on Wednesday (Jan 12) has taken a new twist as police retrieved the body of a young boy from a fresh grave.

Semporna OCPD Supt Mohd Farhan Lee said that police were led to a fresh grave at a burial site in Kg Halo where they recovered the body of a boy on Friday (Jan 14).

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