KUALA LUMPUR, March 31 — The outing of a family of five to fish in a river at Jalan KP 4/9 Kota Perdana in Seri Kembangan ended in tragedy when one of the children was found drowned, while the mother and another child went missing after a water surge hit them.
Selangor Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department operations assistant director Ahmad Mukhlis Mokhtar said they received a distress call on the incident at 4.35pm.
“We received a report from the survivor, a 40-year-old male, saying that his 38-year-old wife and their children, two boys aged nine and ten, and a four-year-old girl, were swept away by strong currents,” he said in a statement this evening.
The Water Rescue Team of the Shah Alam Fire and Rescue Station was rushed to the scene, and they managed to locate the body of the 10-year-old boy at 7.01pm, about one kilometre from where they were last seen.
Mukhlis said members of the public managed to rescue his nine-year-old brother at 5.18pm, and efforts are underway to locate the mother and daughter.
An initial investigation revealed the victims were netting fish in the area before being hit by the water surge.
— Bernama
