Kunak shootout: MMEA man loses left eye to bullet wound, manhunt for suspects continues

MMEA director general Maritime Admiral Datuk Hamid Mohd Amin visiting with Petty Officer Zainal Abad Komel, 45, is blinded on his left eye after he shot in the eye in a shootout with smugglers in Sabah's Kunak waters.

KOTA KINABALU: One of the two Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) personnel who was shot in the eye in a shootout in waters off Sabah's east coast Kunak on Sunday (April 7) has lost sight in his left eye.

MMEA director-general Maritime Admiral Datuk Hamid Mohd Amin said that the Lahad Datu district hospital confirmed that Petty Officer Zainal Abad Komel, 45, is blinded in his left eye.