SINGAPORE - Three men drowned after a Singapore-registered barge
sank two nautical miles northeast of Sekupang, Batam, on Friday
night.
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said on Sunday
that Indonesian authorities have recovered the bodies of one
Singaporean, one Chinese and one Myanmar national.
It said there were nine people on board the semi-submersible barge
named Posh Mogami when the incident happened.
Indonesian authorities have rescued the remaining six. Two were
Singaporeans, while there was one Malaysian, one Filipino, one
Indonesian and a Dutch national.
ST