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Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Lost and Found: Missing Malaysian Navy Ship Located

KD GanasThe Royal Malaysian Navy has found one of its gunboats which was reported missing off the coast of Sabah early Monday morning.

Navy chief Abdul Aziz Jaafar in a series of tweets said that the vessel was located at nearly 7 p.m. (local Malaysian time) and the crew of seven was safe, except that they were "starving".

One of the search and rescue (SAR) ships received a distress call from the missing ship roughly four hours before locating it; the gunboat reported engine malfunction and failed steering gear. The SAR vessels, KD Ganas and KD Lekiu, then proceeded to the location.

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