SINGAPORE – A body believed to be that of a man who had been missing since March 27 after a boat collision off the Southern Islands has been found in Indonesian waters.
The Singapore police said on April 5 that they were alerted by the Indonesian authorities on March 30 at about 3pm to a case of a body found floating off the sea of Karimun, to the south-west of Singapore.
The dead man is believed to be one of three people on board a pleasure craft that collided with a supply vessel at about 4.15am on March 27.
A 49-year-old man has been arrested for rash navigation of a vessel, the Singapore police added.
The victim, Mr Chua Muhammad Syafidi, was an engineering supervisor with Tower Transit Singapore, the bus operator said in a Facebook post on April 5.
He had just completed a part-time diploma in operations and engineering management and was due to attend his graduation ceremony on May 5.
Mr Syafidi, 37, was with Tower Transit for 10 years and rose from vehicle technician to engineering supervisor, said the company, which described him as a “talented and creative engineer who loved to learn and grow”.
