Missing Covid suspect, 73, found drowned in ditch

A 73-year-elderly person who didn’t get back final evening was found suffocated in a trench in Kampung Parit Betong, close here at 11.54am today.

Penggaram fire and salvage station head Firdaus Ahmad said the perished was found when they dispatched a group subsequent to getting a crisis call.”When we showed up at the area, the person in question, Jamyah Abd Halim, was in a five-foot-profound trench. It took us five minutes to separate her body.

“We needed to get into individual defensive apparel as the casualty was an individual under reconnaissance, and we gave up her body to the police for additional activity,” he said in an assertion.

An individual under observation is somebody who has had close contact with an individual being scrutinized for conceivable openness to Covid-19.

He said the activity to separate the casualty’s body included a Fire Rescue Tender vehicle, a Hilux utility vehicle and two quick intercession cruisers with 10 work force from the Penggaram station.

In Shah Alam, a four year-old young lady is dreaded to have suffocated after she fell into a channel at Jalan Bunga Tanjung 4, Kampung Baru Hicom at 6pm this evening.

Selangor fire and salvage chief Norazam Khamis in an assertion said the kid may have been cleared away by solid flows heading towards Sri Muda subsequent to falling into the channel.