The body of the second landslide victim has been discovered at the vegetable farm at Blue Valley in Cameron Highlands.
Cameron Highlands OCPD Deputy Supt Azri Ramli told a press conference on Friday (Jan 26 that the landslide occurred 80m up the slope of the hill, and the soil buried the affected house to a depth of 2m.
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Cameron Highlands OCPD Deputy Supt Azri Ramli told a press conference on Friday (Jan 26 that the landslide occurred 80m up the slope of the hill, and the soil buried the affected house to a depth of 2m.
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00:00 The body of the second landslide victim has been discovered at the vegetable farm at Blue
00:06 Valley in Cameron Highlands.
00:09 Cameron Highlands OCPD Deputy Superintendent Azri Ramli said the body of a male victim
00:14 was found at 12.05pm about 10 metres from the house.
00:19 He said, "Five people were living in the house that was hit by the landslide.
00:23 Four of them were men and one was a woman, all Myanmar nationals.
00:27 The first body was found at 5.40am."
00:31 Superintendent Azri told a press conference at the site's base on Friday that heavy machinery
00:36 is unable to get into the site as some small landslides are still occurring.
00:41 He said clearing works are being conducted to ensure that the machinery can be brought
00:45 to the site and added that the continuous rain was not helping rescue efforts.
00:51 Superintendent Azri said this was the first time a landslide involving deaths had occurred
00:55 at the site, adding that 120 personnel from various agencies are currently involved in
01:01 the rescue mission.
01:03 Pahang Fire and Rescue Department Deputy Director of Operations Ismail Abdul Ghani had earlier
01:09 said the department received a distress call at 2.51am about a landslide at Batu 59, Blue
01:16 Valley.
01:18 During the press conference, Ismail said the landslide occurred 80 metres up the slope
01:22 of the hill and that the soil buried the house to a depth of two metres.
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