"One more body has just been found. In total, seven of them had drowned," Jonas Lomban Tobing, Indonesian consul general based in Johor Bahru, told ANTARA by phone on Sunday.
The boat carrying 24 Indonesian migrant workers and 2 skippers capsized in Tanjung Ayam waters in Malaysia last Wednesday at 3.30 am western Indonesian time en route to Batam, Riau Islands province. Seventeen of them were rescued after floating in the sea for seven hours.
The Malaysian authorities have so far identified one of the seven dead victims, namely Jumagin born in Trenggalek, East Java, on April 25, 1971.
The Indonesian consulate general in Johor Bahru was trying to contact the relatives of Jumagin in Trenggalek to discuss his burial, Tobing said.
Most of the dead victims were found already in a state of decay without shirts so that rescue workers found it difficult to identify them, he said.
The search for the dead bodies involved personnel from the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (APPM), the Malaysian maritime police and the Malaysian Navy.
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