Deputy minister's body found after copter crash in Sarawak
Kuala Lumpur
SEARCH teams have recovered the body of a Malaysian deputy minister in the Borneo island state of Sarawak near where a helicopter carrying her and five others is believed to have crashed, officials said on Friday.
The Eurocopter AS350 had been ferrying Plantation Industries and Commodities Deputy Minister Noriah Kasnon and her husband Asmuni Abdullah from Sarawak's interior to the state capital Kuching when it went missing on Thursday.
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