SAR team finds body of drowned 3-year-old boy in Beaufort

KOTA KINABALU – The body of a three-old boy, who was reported missing yesterday, was found in a ditch in Kg Kuridak Gadong, Beaufort, this morning. 

Beaufort district police chief Yusoff Zaki said the body of Muhammad Qays Izhar Abd Halim, who is believed to have drowned, was found by the search-and-rescue (SAR) team and villagers at 10.30am, about 70m from where the victim was reported missing.

“We received a report of the missing child at 10.30am yesterday, and a SAR operation involving police, firefighters and villagers was carried out,” he said in a statement today.

Yusoff said the victim’s body was taken to Beaufort Hospital for further action.

Meanwhile, he added that search efforts are ongoing to locate an 18-month-old girl who went missing in Kg Batu 66 in Beaufort yesterday.

“The victim is feared to have fallen into the river or disappeared in the forest after leaving the house. Search efforts are being carried out by police and firemen with the help of the Tracker Dog Unit (K9),” he said. – Bernama, July 10, 2022