About 26 suspected illegal migrants were missing Thursday after the boat they were in capsized in southern Malaysian waters, dpa cited a regional maritime official as saying. A passing vessel rescued two people from the boat which sank off Tanjung Ketapang town in the state of Johor, according to Ibrahim Mohamed, a regional operations chief of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency. Another maritime official said the missing were Indonesian workers on their way to return to their home country in time for the end of the holy month of Ramadan next week.
