KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 (NNN-Bernama) — Three more bodies have been recovered on Saturday at a campsite in Malaysia that was struck by a landslide a day earlier, taking the death toll to 24.
The bodies were that of a woman in her 30s, a boy aged two to three, and a girl.
Inspector-General of Police Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said so far, seven children are confirmed to have died in the landslide tragedy at the Fathers’ Organic Farm camping site in Batang Kali, a popular hilly area about 50 km north of Kuala Lumpur.
“As stated previously, once all the victims have been found, investigations will proceed immediately. However, this doesn’t mean there is no investigation going on right now.
“I have instructed Selangor (state) Criminal Investigation Department chief SAC Baharudin Mat Taib to head the probe into the landslide,” he said.
A Bernama survey of the landslide area found the weather to be cloudy.
The landslide, which occurred at 2.42 am on Friday, resulted in a section of a ravine measuring almost 300 metres long and 70 metres high crashing onto the campsite.
As of 4.05 pm Saturday, 61 out of the 94 victims have been found, 24 have been confirmed dead and nine more are still missing.
— NNN-BERNAMA
