KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 ― A 77-year-old man who was reported missing since Monday night has been found in Rembau, Negri Sembilan this evening, Petaling Jaya district police chief Assistant Commissioner Nik Ezanee Mohd Faisal confirmed.
Low Kon Fatt, a trader, who police said was last seen in Bukit Tinggi, Klang, has since been admitted to the Rembau Hospital after he was discovered weak and lost in his car in an area believed to be nearby the same hospital.
“(He has been) found in Rembau, hospitalised.
“Passers-by found him in his car, he was weak,” said Nik Ezanee told the media in a brief statement earlier.
Nik Ezanee added that he was informed through a phone call from the Rembau Hospital of Low’s discovery.
Before his discovery today, the last anyone heard from Low was through a phone call to his wife on Monday night around 9pm informing her that he had lost his way after delivering goods to a customer earlier in the afternoon.
Soon after, Low became uncontactable when his wife tried reaching him again at midnight several hours later.
Through social media posts by Low’s children, his supposed last known location to them was in the vicinity of the Desa Petaling area, about 43 km away from where police say he was last seen in Klang.
Rembau and Klang are about 120km apart.
A post by Low’s daughter on Facebook earlier today before his discovery noted that checks on sightings of him supposedly seen walking near the Sri Hartamas area yesterday also came up blank.
Following his discovery, Low’s daughter posted again on Facebook confirming he was found in a weak and dehydrated state, but stable, and family members are on their way to the hospital.
“We don’t have too much information at this point but wanted to get this message out to all you good people out there who have supported us over the last two nightmarish days,” read a post on Sha-ron Low’s Facebook profile.
News of Low’s disappearance shared by Sha-ron triggered a social media avalanche with her original post shared more than 15,000 times, with her posting of her father’s discovery already shared more than 500 times in less than an hour.
Among those involved in active search of Low was local philanthropist Kuan Chee Heng, otherwise fondly known as Uncle Kentang, who had even offered a RM2,000 reward to anyone able to supply information that led to Low’s discovery.
A live video posted by Kuan on his Facebook page minutes after Low’s discovery showed him and several other men at the victim’s car park along the roadside in Rembau, saying he intended to tow Low’s vehicle to a safer spot such as the closest police station.