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Search operation continues for 9 remaining landslide victims

The search and rescue operation enters its fifth day.

Bernama
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An excavator belonging to the armed forces arrives at the site of last Friday's landslide in Gohtong Raya, Batang Kali, as the search and rescue operation continues, Dec 19. Photo: Bernama
An excavator belonging to the armed forces arrives at the site of last Friday's landslide in Gohtong Raya, Batang Kali, as the search and rescue operation continues, Dec 19. Photo: Bernama

The search and rescue operation for the remaining nine victims of the landslide at the Father’s Organic Farm campsite in Gohtong Raya, Batang Kali, resumed at 8.30am today.

The operation, which has entered its fifth day, involved personnel and assets from various agencies including sniffer dogs from the K9 dog detection unit.

The search operation was suspended at about midnight.

The landslide tragedy that struck at 2.42am last Friday has so far left 24 people dead, nine victims still missing and 61 survivors out of a total of 94 people involved.

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