THE search is still on for a two-year-old boy who went missing after falling into a drain at Taman Goodwood, Bukit Palah, Malacca today.

A spokesman for the state Fire and Rescue Department said they received a distress call at 3.42pm and a team from the Ayer Keroh station was dispatched to the scene.

The victim’s father suspects his son fell into the 0.6m-wide and 1m-deep drain. We are still searching for the boy,” said the spokesman said

The victim’s mother, Nor Amiza Che Kar, 28, said her youngest son, Muhammad Danish Mohd Faizal, and his sibling were playing near the drain, which was full of water due to heavy rains in the afternoon, while she and her husband were selling nasi kerabu near the scene of the incident.

They only realised the boy was missing at about 3.30pm and his sibling did not know his whereabouts, she said, adding that only his slippers were on the grass nearby.

Amiza and her husband, Mohd Faizal Maarop, 38, ran around looking for him in vain, she said.

She said Danish was wearing a blue T-shirt and urged the public to help locate him. – Bernama, November 25, 2023.