Singapore police say body found is missing man from boat collision

Singapore police have confirmed that a body recovered from the sea off the Indonesian island of Karimunin is that of a 37-year-old man who has…

Singapore police have confirmed that a body recovered from the sea off the Indonesian island of Karimunin is that of a 37-year-old man who has been missing since March 27 after a collision between two boats.

The police said on Sunday that Indonesian authorities had found the body of Chua Muhammad Syafidi floating in the sea off the island to the southwest of Singapore at about 3pm on March 30, according to The Straits Times.

“The body, believed to be the missing person from the collision between a pleasure craft and supply vessel off the Southern Islands on March 27, was found motionless and subsequently retrieved from the waters,” police said, as quoted by CNA.

There were three people aboard the pleasure craft when it sank. The other two were rescued while an underwater search was called to find Syafidi, the Maritime and Port Authority said in a media statement on the same day.

Singapore police said a 49-year-old man was later arrested for rash navigation of a vessel.

Syafidi was an engineering supervisor with Tower Transit Singapore, the bus operator said in a social media post on Sunday. He had been with the company for 10 years, rising from vehicle technician to his supervisory post, it added.

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