A 14-year-old Dutch boy is dead after he disappeared after going diving off the coast of Malaysia, according to his British father who was found drifting at sea on Saturday, officials said
Fourteen-year-old Nathan Renze Chesters and his British father, 46-year-old Adrian Peter Chesters, were in a group of four who went missing on Wednesday afternoon on a training dive near Tokong Sanggol, a small island off the southeastern town of Mersing.The elder Chesters and 18-year-old Alexia Alexandra Molina from France were rescued by fishermen at around 1 a.m.
Read MorePolice had said Indonesian authorities would take over the search for the teenager as he had likely drifted into their waters."We believe there is a high likelihood that he is no longer in Malaysian waters based on the movement of sea currents, as well as the time and location where the other victims were found," Mersing district police chief Cyril Edward Nuing told reporters.
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