BAU: A search and rescue (SAR) operation has been launched for a 28-year-old man who failed to return home from a fishing trip last Wednesday.
The missing person, Francis Nomi, was said to have gone fishing at a river near Kampung Bijuray here with a friend on Wednesday evening.
On the way back, both of them went through a forest heading for home.
However, his friend was unaware that the victim who was walking behind, had gone missing.
Francis’ family only lodged a report this morning at Bau police station.
Immediately upon receiving the report, Bau fire station despatched its personnel to the scene in a search and rescue operation.
The search today was carried out in an area where the victim was last seen in the forest, involving a radius of about 2km.
Also involved in the search were the police, Civil Defence Force (APM) and local villagers.
