Body of missing father in Sungai Sengayan incident found

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The second victim who went missing after a four-wheel drive vehicle was swept away by strong currents while crossing Sungai Sengayan in Long Jekitan, Baram on Monday (April 14), was found drowned on Friday (April 18).  Marudi Fire and Rescue Station operations officer Nasir Razali said the body of Dawellies Luing, 46, a student management assistant at SK Long Jekitan was found by the search and rescue (SAR) team at 2pm.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4w53tucb   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The second victim who went missing following a tragedy in Sungai-Sengayan, Longjekitan Baram

00:08on April 14, has been found drowned on Friday. Maruti Fire and Rescue Station Operations Officer

00:15Nasir Razali said the body of Dawele's Lewing, a student management assistant at SK Longjekitan,

00:22was discovered by the search and rescue team at 2 p.m. He said the victim's body was found

00:27about 7 km from the scene of the incident. The remains were brought to the Long Silat jetty

00:33and handed over to the police to be transported to Miri Hospital for a post-mortem. In the incident,

00:39Dawele's and his daughter, Valerie Menti, were in a four-wheel drive vehicle with his wife,

00:45Leetun Ajip and a driver, when they were swept away while attempting to cross the river.

00:50Leetun and the driver managed to save themselves, but Valerie was found drowned about 2 km from the

00:55scene by villagers on Monday. Her body was brought home to Longtikan and laid to rest on Wednesday.

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