Boy, 12, feared drowned while trying to save nephew


BACHOK: A 12-year-old boy is feared to have drowned while trying to save his nephew at Pantai Kemayan here, Sunday (March 5) morning.

Bachok district police chief Superintendent Mohamad Ismail Jamaluddin said in the 8am incident, the victim, Ahmad Fadhlullah Mohamad, went missing after trying to save his nephew, Muhammad Nabil Irfan Ismail Mokhtar, 11, who slipped from the concrete embankment.

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