Two feared buried in early morning Tambun landslide

 

Two individuals are feared buried in a landslide at a hotel located in a hilly area in Tambun, near Ipoh, early this morning.

A Perak Fire and Rescue Department spokesperson said that they received information about the incident involving two victims, a male and female, who were staying at the hotel at 1.28am.

“We immediately deployed a team from the Ipoh Fire and Rescue station for rescue work upon receiving a call about the incident,” he said in a statement issued in Ipoh today.

He said that until now the firefighters were still carrying out rescue work and they also found two pairs of sports shoes believed to belong to the two victims at the scene.

- Bernama