By Xinhua,
Jakarta : The Indonesian Police said Wednesday a boat with 14 people on board has sunk in Malaysian waters, leaving six passengers dead and six others missing.
Police officer Muhammed Shamsuddin says rescuers are searching for survivors from the mall boat that sank Sunday in bad weather off Malaysia’s southern Johor state.
The two survivors are a 40-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman, both Indonesians.
They were picked up from a beach Tuesday, Muhammed was quoted by major newspaper The Jakarta Post’s website as saying.
Police were investigating whether all passengers were Indonesians and whether they were trying to enter Malaysia without permit.
Many Indonesians cross the waterway between the two countries in small boats and ferries to work illegally.