Eight RI migrants rescued

Eight RI migrants rescued

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): Malaysian police have found eight
illegal Indonesian immigrants who survived a shipwreck which
claimed at least eight lives, news reports said yesterday.

The survivors, who had no travel documents, told police they
had not eaten anything for the last three days.

Their boat hit a coral reef near Tanjung Siang, 100 km off
Malaysia's southern city of Johor Baru on Friday, the national
Bernama news agency reported.

The boat, capable of carrying some 40 people, had left Tanjung
Pinang in Indonesia's Riau Islands on Thursday and ran into a
storm before hitting the coral reef off Tanjung Siang, Bernama
said.

Police said they were searching for more survivors and
victims. Eight bodies have been fished out of Johor waters since
Saturday.