Sixty-six people were missing after a boat carrying Indonesian illegal migrants sank off Malaysia's west coast early on Wednesday, a maritime official said.

"A wooden boat with 97 Indonesians has sank off Port Klang near Banting," Mohamad Zuhri, spokesman for the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, told Agence France-Presse, adding that 31 had been rescued.

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