Quick action by tour guide saves six from drowning in Semporna


KOTA KINABALU: A tour guide's swift action saved six people who fell into the sea following a crash between a tourist vessel and a villagers' passenger boat in Semporna district on Friday (July 11). All were rescued unharmed.

Prior to the 8.30am incident, the tourist vessel carrying nine visitors - a Malaysian man and seven women from Peninsular Malaysia and a Swiss woman - had departed from the Semporna public jetty and were heading to Mabul Island.

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