Sandakan MMEA deputy operations director Commander Ahmad Firdaus Shaari said the agency was alerted to an incident by the Eastern Sabah Security Command of a ship capsising in the waters off Kinabatangan.
"The ship then drifted into our waters and a strong wave pushed them further and landed on the coast of an island in Kinabatangan, where they realised that the ship was slowly sinking," he told reporters just before sending the victims off to the Malaysia-Philippines border, where the Philippines navy awaited their arrival, here today.
"We left Bongao Island on the morning of Jan 6. Then, at around 11.30am, the ship broke down and we were left stranded at sea.
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