Search efforts for missing divers continue


Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency searching for the three missing divers at sea. - Photo: AFP

MERSING: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has deployed a Bombardier aircraft to help the search and rescue (SAR) operation to find the remaining three foreign scuba divers who went missing in the waters of Pulau Tokong Sanggol, near here.

Johor MMEA director First Admiral Nurul Hizam Zakaria said that the department has also alerted the relevant agencies from Indonesia and Singapore, aside from the island community around the Mersing islands.

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