A crew member of a tugboat was rescued while six others are feared missing when the vessel collided with a tanker in the waters off the Kuantan Port early today.

In the 5am incident which occurred about six nautical miles from Tanjung Gelang, a fishing boat in the vicinity managed to rescue the crewman while the other six went missing.

Kuantan police chief ACP Abdul Aziz Salleh said the rescued crewman was a 29-year-old unidentified Indonesian whose condition was reported to be stable.

He said search and rescue operations to locate the missing crewmen were under way, involving the marine police, Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency and the state Fire and Rescue Department.

- Bernama