Ten members of a single family were swept away in a river surge in Malaysia, with seven bodies found just under 25 kilometers from where they had been swimming, a senior police official said.
KUALA LUMPUR — Ten members of a single family were swept away in a river surge in Malaysia, with seven bodies found just under 25 kilometers from where they had been swimming, a senior police official said Tuesday.
The tragedy happened last Friday at the Jeram Mawar waterfall located deep in a forest in the district of Chukai in the eastern state of Terengganu.Local police chief Hanyan Ramlan told AFP that nine of the victims were related and the other was a fiance. “I believe they were swimming in the river on Friday when a sudden surge in water swept them away. It happened very fast and the water level rose up to three meters,” Hanyan said.
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