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A Hong Kong man who went missing for 10 days along with three others when the boat they were travelling on disappeared off the northern coast of Borneo has been rescued.
All four people were rescued in good condition by Vietnamese fishermen on Thursday, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said. It said efforts were underway to bring the four back to Malaysia.
Hongkonger Tommy Lam Wai-yin, 45, who, with his wife operated a resort, Tommy’s Place at Tanjung Simpang Mengayau, or more commonly “The Tip of Borneo”; his female employee Armella Ali Hassan, 23, and Spanish couple David Hernandez Gasulla, 29, and his wife Martha Miguel, 30, went missing during a speedboat trip on May 2.
An extensive sea and air search was launched by the MMEA.
The boat was found capsized about 2.6 nautical miles from Pulau Balambangan on May 8 when one of the two engines was recovered by fishermen. The occupants of the boat were not at the scene.
The authorities believed engine failure may have caused the boat, driven by Lam, to go adrift. They said there was no indication that there had been an abduction.
Hong Kong’s Security Bureau has had an amber outbound travel alert in place for the area since 2013, following a spate of tourist kidnappings as well as armed clashes in eastern Sabah between the Malaysian military and armed groups from the Sulu archipelago.
The boat went missing when travelling between Sabah’s Balambangan Island and the Tip of Borneo.
The four left Balambangan Island at about 6pm on May 2, and were scheduled to arrive two hours later.
A Hong Kong immigration department spokesman said on Thursday it was noted by the China’s consulate general in Kota Kinabalu, the state capital of Sabah, that Lam had been rescued by a Vietnamese fishing boat. Lam’s family confirmed they had reached him and he was unharmed. He was on the way to Ho Chi Minh City.
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST)
