Penampang residents in grief after Moyog River claims lives of two teens


Firemen and villagers bringing the remains of one of the boys up from the Moyog river.

KOTA KINABALU: Sorrow gripped Penampang residents again as the Moyog River claimed two more lives on Saturday (June 18).

The cries of Walter Joseph and Helda Biun rang out along the river as they desperately called out to their son Harold Walter who along with friend Tomansi Olaf, both 17, went missing while going for a swim at Kampung Pogunon just before 4pm that fateful day.

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