Drones deployed over Pulau Mawar to assist search for missing student


  • Nation
  • Monday, 06 Feb 2023

MERSING: Drones are being used in the search and rescue (SAR) operation to locate a student from a private higher learning institution who went missing while hiking in Pulau Mawar here.

Mersing district police chief Supt Abdul Razak Abdullah Sani said a drone belonging to the Mersing district office was used on the first two days of the SAR operation to locate Muhamad Akmal Hakimi Ishak, 20, and a thermal imaging drone belonging to the Malaysian Civil Defence Force was used on Sunday (Feb 5).

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