Two youths die as motorbike crashes into Tawau drain

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The motorcycle of the victims being retrived from the drain.

TAWAU: Fire and Rescue Department helped retrieve the bodies of two accident victims from a five-meter deep moonson drain at Taman Semarak Jaya yesterday.

The department’s station chief Mohd Razali Ahmad said that according to police, the two victims were involved in an accident the day before and were only found yesterday after the motorcycle they were on went off the road and fell into the drain.

The victims were identified as Lester Mujah, 23, and Wong Lee Fong, 21.

Their bodies were one foot from each other and were retrieved by using ropes and stretcher about 7.30pm yesterday.