By Bernadette H. Carreon
Horizon news staff

Police called off the search and rescue for the missing fisherman Obichang Orak.
Vice President and Justice Minister Elias Camsek Chin in an interview said that the operating standard procedure is to call off the search and rescue mission five days after it was launched.
Earlier the Bureau of Public Safety asked the public’s assistance in search of Orak.
The search for Orak started last week but still Orak’s body has not been found.
Chin said last Sunday, Orak’s family asked the police to provide them with a boat to continue the search.
Orak is in his early 50’s who reportedly left the Surangel Dock at the Airai side of the Japan-Palau Friendship Bridge last Sunday April 22 on a fishing trip and has not returned since then.
The announcement said that Orak who is a resident of Airai reportedly have left on a 20-footer marine six boat with a single 90HP Yamaha engine.
The announcement is described to have a white canopy and that Orak was last seen at about 4 p.m. on the same day at Tochelir a Ngebard, near Ngarchelong State.
Chin said police found Orak’s boat and his fishing gear at the location where he was reported to have been seen before he went missing.