Cameron Highland Landslide: Search for victims continues


CAMERON HIGHLANDS: The search and rescue (SAR) operation for three more victims of the landslide in Kampung Raja, Blue Valley, here, resumed at 8.30am on Saturday (Jan 27).

Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) deputy director in Pahang, Md Gezani Md Ghazi said Saturday's SAR operation involved 158 personnel from Pahang, Perak and Selangor.

"The SAR operation is also joined by various agencies such as the Malaysian Civil Defence Force, the police, the Malaysian Minerals and Geosciences Department (JMG) and the Public Works Department," he said when met by Bernama at the Fire Control Post at the site of the disaster on Saturday.

He said two tracker dogs (K9) belonging to JBPM were also mobilized to assist in the operation which focused on the central sector of the landslide near the location where two bodies of the victims were found on Friday (Jan 26).

He said that based on monitoring by JMG, no new soil movement was detected, but the operation had to be stopped in the event of heavy rain.

A survey by Bernama in the area found the SAR team carrying a variety of digging equipment and stretchers. It was drizzling rain.

They had to walk 3km to get to the location of the landslide as the location is inaccessible by vehicle due to the hilly area.

In the incident around 2.40am on Friday, five Myanmar nationals, including a woman, were feared buried after two houses occupied by the victims were buried in the landslide. - Bernama

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