"The APMM (Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency) has found more bodies believed to be those of victims of the boat accident," Jonas Lomban Tobing, Indonesian consul general based in Johor Bahru, told Antara by phone on Sunday.
Earlier, APMM also found two bodies of Indonesian migrant workers killed in the tragedy.
With the find of the six dead victims, only one Indonesian migrant worker was still missing, Tobing said.
One of the bodies was found at Rengit River, Malaysia, on Sunday afternoon and the three others around the scene of accident on Sunday morning, he said.
The four bodies were now at the Sungai Rengkit police post and would later be taken to Kota Tinggi hospital in Johor for autopsy, he said.
"The four bodies remain unidentified," he said.
One of the six dead victims was identified as Jumagin. He was born in Trenggalek, East Java, on April 25, 1971.
Tobing said rescue workers would continue to search for one Indonesian migrant worker who was still missing.
The boat carrying 24 Indonesian migrant workers and 2 skippers capsized in Tanjung Ayam waters, Malaysia, last Wednesday at 03.30 western Indonesian time en route to Batam, Riau Islands province.
Seventeen of the Indonesian migrant workers were rescued after floating in the sea for seven hours. All the survivors are being accommodated in Batam before being sent to their respective home towns.(*)
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