KUALA LUMPUR – The search-and-rescue operation for three more victims of the landslide in Kg Raja, Blue Valley, in Cameron Highlands, resumed this morning.
According to reports by Bernama, Pahang Fire and Rescue Department deputy director Md Gezani Md Ghazi said the operation began at 8.30am with 158 members and officers from the Pahang, Perak, and Selangor Fire and Rescue Departments.
“The rescue mission is also supported by various agencies, including the Malaysian Civil Defence Force, the police force, the Minerals and Geoscience Department, and the Public Works Department (PWD),” he said at the location of the landslide today.
He said two Fire Department tracking dogs were also deployed to help with the operation, with a focus on the central sector of the rubble near the location where the bodies of two victims were discovered yesterday, within a 50m radius.
Gezani said no new soil movements have been detected at the site thus far, based on Geoscience Department monitoring. However, the rescue operation had to be halted due to heavy rain.
The bodies of two of the five victims buried in the rubble were recovered yesterday.
In the incident around 2.40am, five Myanmar nationals, including a woman, were feared buried after two houses occupied by the victims were buried in the landslide. – January 27, 2004