MIRI: A timber company contractor has gone missing whilst leading a team of loggers into the deep jungles of Kapit district in central Sarawak.
The Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department has started a search-and-rescue mission to locate the missing man, identified as Kanek Antok.Next morning, the Bomba station from the nearest town of Kapit deployed search teams to the site.
Sarawak Bomba in its latest updates said it would take six hours of boatride and walking to reach the place where the contractor was last seen. They said they received an emergency alert on May 1 at about 7pm from the timber camp workers about the missing contractor."They went in to do markings on timber logs.
"On May 1, the workers came out to the timber camp and said the contractor had missing while they were doing their work inside the jungle."A police report has been lodged while the Bomba search and rescue operation starts," said Bomba Sarawak. Kapit district is located right in the heart of Sarawak, and Kapit town has no proper road links yet with the outside world, only rugged gravel and earth roads via the timber and plantation areas.
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