Three bodies were recovered, and six other people from the boat were missing. The boat left Kota Kinabalu in Sabah state at 9 a.m. Saturday on its way to Pulau Mengalum, an island about 60 kilometers (38 miles) west, and was reported missing about 12 hours later. The captain and a crew member were spotted by a military plane and rescued by another tourist boat Sunday afternoon, according to government minister Shahidan Kassim and the Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency. The search area is about 400 square nautical miles (nearly 1,400 square kilometers) of the South China Sea. Arwin Musbir, the captain of another boat that left for Pulau Mengalum at the same time, told the New Straits Times newspaper that he was following the missing boat but lost sight of it shortly after they left.

Source: ABC News January 29, 2017 05:53 UTC