Copter crash: Fifth body recovered
THE STAR
KUCHING: The fifth body from Thursday’s helicopter crash has been recovered at 6pm on Saturday.
Four bodies have already been recovered, with the fourth being retrieved at 3.26pm on Saturday.
This follows an announcement on Saturday morning that police have confirmed that the third body recovered by the search and recovery team near the helicopter crash site on Saturday was that of Ahmad Sobri Harun.
He was the personal bodyguard of Deputy Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Noriah Kasnon.
On Thursday, Ahmad Sobri and Noriah was killed in a helicopter crash in Sarawak. She and her husband Asmuni Abdullah were on the ill-fated craft with four others when it went missing en route from Betong to Kuching.
On board were ministry secretary-general Datuk Dr Sundaran Annamalai, Kuala Kangsar MP and Malaysian Palm Oil Board chairman Datuk Wan Mohammad Khair-il Anuar Wan Ahmad and personal bodyguard Ahmad Sobri Harun, as well as the pilot, Captain Rudolf Rex Ragas.
Air traffic controllers lost contact with the helicopter at 4.32pm after it took off from Betong at 4.12pm.
