Malaysian crewman's family still waiting for remains to be repatriated from Bangladesh


KUALA LUMPUR: The family of Muhammad Isa Muhammad Veeramohan, a Malaysian crewman who reportedly fell into the sea while installing a pilot ladder of a vessel in the waters of Chittagong, Bangladesh last Wednesday (May 8), hopes the government can help speed up the process of repatriating the body to Malaysia.

The executive secretary of the National Union of Seafarers of Peninsular Malaysia (NUSPM) Ikmal Azam Thanaraj Abdullah said this was expressed by the victim's family when he met them on Monday (May 13).

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