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Feared drowned
at building site
28/01/2008 New
Straits Times
PETALING JAYA: A 36-year-old lorry driver was feared drowned after a fishing
excursion went wrong on Saturday night.
Sabahan Jerry Rambayan had gone to catch fish at an abandoned building site
opposite the Giant hypermarket in USJ1, where water had collected.
The Subang Jaya Municipal Council, unable to bear the cost of continuously
pumping out the water, had put guppies in the water to curb the breeding of
mosquitoes there and Rambayan was believed to have dived into the "pool" to
catch the fish.
Witnesses said he disappeared under the water soon after.
At press time, Rambayan's body had not been found and his wife, Rainah
Kinsang, 28, and four young children were keeping vigil at the building
site, abandoned since 1998, while Fire and Rescue Department divers searched
the murky waters.
Council president Datuk Adnan Md Ikhsan, who was also at the site, said
there was little the counccil could do if the public did not keep away from
danger.
"We have boarded up the area, but people still try to break through. We
can't keep pumping out the water, because when it rains, it will fill up
again.
"We are doing everything to keep the mosquitoes away," he said, adding that
the council was, however, looking at how it could help Rainah and her
children.
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