KOTA KINABALU: A toddler has been found dead after he was believed to have slipped and fallen into a river behind his home in Tambunan on Sunday (Jan 9) night.
The two-year-old, the youthful of two siblings, was regarded as enjoying inside the home earlier than the 6pm incident.
“His parents were home and when they realised he was nowhere inside the house, they went around the compound to look for him,” stated Tambunan fireplace station chief Desmond Ak Micky when contacted on Monday (Jan 10).
He stated they went to the river behind their home at Kg Sungai Zon Kumaraling to seek for him, and found his slippers by the riverbank.
The mother and father alerted the authorities at 6.53pm and a search operation was mounted.
Desmond stated the boy’s physique was solely found by villagers at 10.05am on Monday, about 3km from the place he was thought to have fallen in.
“The body was retrieved and the boy was pronounced dead by medical officials,” he stated.
The physique was later handed over to police for additional motion.
