GUA MUSANG: The Temiar tribe first attracted the country’s attention in August last year when seven orang asli pupils fled into the forest to escape punishment for swimming in a river without permission.
The entire community mounted a search for them. Some 45 days later, two of them were found by search and rescue personnel and brought out to safety, but the others did not make it.
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