No one fell into the seawater channel as previously feared, says Johor Fire and Rescue

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The Johor Fire and Rescue Department on Sunday (July 13) confirmed that none of the victims in the two-motorcycle crash near Pos Malaysia along Jalan Bazar Karat on Saturday (July 12) night had fallen into the nearby seawater channel, as initially believed.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4tt5yzpv   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Three individuals were injured in a two-motorcycle accident along Jalan Bazar Karat, near Post

00:08Malaysia in Johor Bahru, on Saturday night.

00:11According to Johor Fire and Rescue Department Operations Commander PBK-1 Firdaus Abdullah,

00:17the incident occurred around 10.49 p.m. and involved a motorcycle and another bike with

00:23an unconfirmed registration number.

00:26Several reports suggested that one of the victims had fallen into a nearby seawater

00:31channel.

00:32However, a final review of CCTV footage from the Johor Bahru City Council confirmed that

00:37none of the victims had entered the water.

00:40Only one individual was thrown from the impact and was taken to Sultana Amina Hospital for

00:45treatment, bringing the total number of victims to three.

00:49Earlier, 16 personnel from the Larkin and Skudai Fire and Rescue Stations, including members

00:55of the Water Rescue Team, had launched a search operation based on the initial report.

01:01With the latest findings, the operation has since been called off, and the case is no longer

01:06being treated as a possible drowning.

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