Father and 8-year-old son drown at Kampung Punggai campsite
Translated from Malay and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Mohammad Nizam Zainal, 33, and his eight-year-old son, Muhammad Zamri Mikhail, drowned near Aliyya Beachfront Campsite in Kampung Punggai, Pengerang.
- Firefighters received an emergency call at 7:10 p.m. and sent six personnel and two vehicles to the site.
- Members of the public had brought both victims ashore before firefighters arrived, but they were unconscious.
A family outing at a coastal campsite in Kampung Punggai, Pengerang, ended with the deaths of a father and his eight-year-old son.
The victims were identified as Mohammad Nizam Zainal, 33, and his son, Muhammad Zamri Mikhail, 8. They drowned near Aliyya Beachfront Campsite, also known as ABC.
The Punggai Fire and Rescue Station received an emergency call at 7:10 p.m. An operations team sent six firefighters, a Fire Rescue Tender and a four-wheel-drive vehicle to the scene.
When the team arrived, members of the public had already brought both victims to shore. The two were unconscious, according to operations commander Aldron Dey Judih@Judeh.
When the operations team arrived at the location, the two victims were found unconscious after members of the public had brought them ashore before the fire and rescue team arrived.
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Originally published by Utusan Malaysia in Malay. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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