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Five more bodies recovered after migrant boat capsizes off Malaysia
The dead included 10 men and six women, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said in a statement.
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This handout photo taken and released on December 15, 2021 by the Malaysian Armed Forces shows a vessel being brought onto shore after capsizing near Tanjung Balau off the coast of Johor, in an accident that authorities said killed 11 Indonesian migrants and left 27 more missing. (AFP/Malaysian Armed Forces)
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alaysian authorities recovered on Thursday the bodies of five more people who had been missing since their boat capsized off the country's south a day earlier, officials said, bringing the death toll from the accident to 16.
The dead included 10 men and six women, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said in a statement.
Fourteen people were found safe, while 20 remain missing, as search and rescue operations continued for a second day.
All those aboard the boat, which overturned off Malaysia's southern Johor state in bad weather on Wednesday, were Indonesians suspected to be undocumented migrants travelling to Malaysia, the MMEA has said.
The accident is the latest in a string of disasters recorded in the waterways between Indonesia and Malaysia in recent years, often involving overloaded boats ferrying labourers seeking work in Malaysian factories and plantations.
According to Jakarta-based rights group Migrant CARE, between 100,000 and 200,000 Indonesians travel illegally to Malaysia each year for work, many of them recruited by trafficking gangs.
