TEMPO.CO, Kuala Lumpur - At least 66 people were suspected to have drowned after an overloaded wooden boat carrying 97 Indonesian immigrants, including women and children, sank off Malaysia's western coast on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
"This was an illegal boat and all the passengers were Indonesian," Muhammad Zuri, spokesman from the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, told Reuters. Malaysia has sent three ships to search for the immigrants.
Quoted from the New Straits Times, the boat sank around midnight on Tuesday, June 17, 2014, about three kilometers from the coastal town of Banting on the Malacca Strait.
ANINGTIAS JATMIKA | REUTERS | NST