JULAU: Rescuers have found the body of Sulau Bilong, 78 who was reported missing from his longhouse, Rumah Lidom, Sungai Enseluai, Nanga Lasi in Julau last Sunday (Aug 29).
State Fire and Rescue Department operation centre said the victim’s body was found floating and stuck on a tree branch in a river, about a kilometre from the longhouse.
“The victim’s body was taken to the longhouse and handed over to the police for further action.
“With the discovery, the SAR operation that had entered its second day was terminated at 9am,” the operation centre said on Wednesday.
The septuagenarian was said to be heading to his farm across the longhouse when he went missing.
According to the victim’s daughter, her father had set out from their longhouse to his farm around 4.15pm.
She said the family suspected something wrong had happened to Sulau after he failed to return home.
She lodged a missing person’s report at Julau police station late in the evening after failing to locate her father.
