The fishermen found the first body clad only in a sports outfit at 4.6 nautical miles from Pulau Kapas and later contacted the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Operational Centre to inform about the discovery.

Terengganu Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency director Maritime Captain Rahim Ramli said in a statement that an MMEA boat with five crew had been despatched to the location.

The body was then taken to the Pulau Kambing MMEA jetty at 3pm and handed over to the Marang police station for further action.

A few hours later, fishermen in a different location found another body and a maritime boat was sent to the location at about 5pm.

Rahim urged members of the public who have missing family members to contact the operational centre or other police stations to help in the investigations into the discovery of both bodies.