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Fatal ride: Firemen working to remove the harvesting machine from a river near a padi field in Kampung Sanglang, Alor Setar.

ALOR SETAR: Polytechnic student Muhammad Amsyar Muqri Masri, who drowned four days ago, was with three of his childhood friends on a harvesting machine that plunged into a river near a padi field.

They had just finished collecting harvested padi and were on their way to unload it at a storage site, said Kubang Pasu OCPD Supt Radzi Abdul Rahim.

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