Saturday, January 27, 2024

Cameron Highlands landslide: Third body recovered

Another body of a landslide victim at Kampung Raja, Blue Valley in Cameron Highlands was found at 12.15am today, bringing the total number of bodies recovered so far to three.

Cameron Highlands district police chief Azri Ramli said the body of a man was detected by the Fire and Rescue Department’s tracker dog near sector C, where the first body was found yesterday.

“The body is being removed from the landslide area and forensic officers from D10 Bukit Aman have arrived to identify the body,” he told a press conference at the Fire and Rescue Department’s Control Post at the site of the landslide today.

On the two bodies found yesterday, Azri said they were identified as Law Ha Phey, 36, and Ki Shing Om, 48.

The bodies were sent to Sultanah Hajah Kalsom Hospital in Cameron Highlands for further action, he added.

They were among five Myanmar nationals, including a woman, buried alive when their homes were involved in a landslide at about 2.40am yesterday.

The other three victims were identified as Shing Law Har, 56, Om Myu, 37, and a woman, Thang Moung, 25.

Bernama

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