Five-year-old boy drowns in Rompin river after falling off jetty


KUANTAN: A five-year-old boy who was reported missing after falling off a jetty since Monday was found drowned in a river near the Simpang Sepayang flood housing area at Kuala Rompin in Rompin on Wednesday.

Rompin district police chief DSP Mohd Azhari Mukhtar said the body of Rizq Ramadhina Jamaluddin was found at 5.30pm by a search and rescue team about four kilometres from where the victim was said to have fallen.

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