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Four more bodies found, taking landslide toll to 30

Search and rescue personnel continue working for the seventh day.

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Military personnel leave the site of a landslide which has claimed the lives of 27 people so far in Batang Kali, Dec 21.
Military personnel leave the site of a landslide which has claimed the lives of 27 people so far in Batang Kali, Dec 21.

Search and rescue workers found four more bodies at the site of the Batang Kali landslide today, nearly a week after the tragedy which occurred early last Friday. 

Police said the first body was found at 10.30am. Three more were found later on, taking the death toll from the landslide to 30. 

Hulu Selangor district police chief Suffian Abdullah said the four bodies were of a man, a woman, a boy and a girl.

"The bodies were found in the same tent in Sector C at a depth of 7m, fully dressed and already starting to decompose.

"As for now, their identities have yet to be ascertained. So we cannot confirm whether they are family members or not," he told a press conference at the scene.

All four bodies have been taken to Hospital Sungai Buloh for a post-mortem.

A total of 94 people, including children, were believed to have been at the Father’s Organic Farm campsite in Gohtong Jaya when the landslide hit last week. 

Of these, three remain missing.