KOTA KINABALU: A woman who went missing in Tawau earlier on Tuesday (Nov 10) has been found drowned.
The body of the 33-year-old victim was found entangled in tree roots by the riverside at Taman Green, Sin Onn Road.
Tawau fire station chief Jemishin Ujin said they received a call about the missing person at 1.56pm and sent a team to conduct a search operation.
"According to villagers, she was last seen around noon, and they tried searching for her but could not locate her," he said in a statement.
Jemishin said firemen were told that a body had been found by the riverbank not long after they arrived at the scene.
They confirmed it was the missing woman, and retrieved her body before handing it over to the police to be taken to the hospital for a post-mortem.
