Court extends remand for couple in children's drowning case

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A 46-year-old man and his lover have been further remanded over the deaths of his two children, who drowned when a car plunged into Sungai Linggi in Port Dickson on Sept 4.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/yam92ja5  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Police have obtained a second remand order against a 46-year-old man whose two children

00:07drowned in a river mishap in Port Dixon earlier September. Negri Sembilan Police Chief Deputy

00:13Commissioner Datuk al-Zafni Ahmad said the order, issued by the magistrate's court in Port Dixon,

00:19allows police to hold the suspect until September 16. The remand of a 41-year-old woman,

00:25believed to be the man's lover, has also been extended for four days until September 15.

00:32Both orders were signed by Magistrate Mohamed Fares Rahman. The tragedy occurred on September 4

00:38when the siblings, an eight-year-old girl and her six-year-old brother, drowned after the car they

00:43were in rolled into Sungai Lingi at Tanjung Agas. Preliminary investigations revealed the man had

00:50stepped out of the parked car to smoke when the vehicle, with its engine switched off,

00:55began moving towards the river. Passersby managed to pull the woman to safety,

01:00but the children were trapped inside. The case is being investigated under Section 302

01:06of the Penal Code for Murder. Police checks showed the male suspect has 16 prior cases

01:11and is wanted for four other offences. The car involved had also been reported stolen in Johor

01:17in 2022.

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