Three friends drown trying to save each other in Kudat


KOTA KINABALU: It was a case of trying to rescue a friend that led to three children drowning in a pond at a construction site in Sabah's northern Kudat district.

In the incident on Thursday (Dec 7), two boys – Mohd Syahwan, seven, and Wan Hermi, 11 – and a girl identified as Nurul Isah, 11, drowned in a pool dug for construction purposes at Kampung Perpaduan Ria 1.

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