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Sivan Temple landslide on Bukit Gasing: View from New Pantai Expressway / Kg.Pantai Dalam; Kuala Lumpur.
Bukit Gasing 29,May 2011
The Sivan Temple landslide is getting worse due to inaction by MBPJ. Will the temple wall collapse, bringing the whole temple structure down? To makes matters worse, the Sivan Temple has been re-opened to devotees recently.
Hindraf lawyers declare Bukit Gasing temple ‘open‘
BAHAYA... kelihatan pergerakan tanah ketika hujan di Hulu Langat, semalam.
KUALA LUMPUR: Kejadian tanah runtuh yang berlaku di Jalan Sungai Semungkis, Kampung Gahal, Hulu Langat, semalam, berkemungkinan berpunca daripada faktor alam semula jadi, iaitu aliran puing (debris flow).
Pengarah Institusi Alam Sekitar dan Pembangunan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Profesor Datuk Dr Ibrahim Komoo, berkata ini kerana kawasan berkenaan masih belum diteroka dan aliran puing hanya berlaku secara di kawasan sedemikian setiap 20 hingga 30 tahun sekali bergantung kepada cuaca semasa.
Katanya, kejadian berkenaan berkemungkinan mempunyai persamaan dengan tragedi banjir lumpur yang berlaku di Pos Dipang, Kampar, Perak pada 1996 dan di Jalan Susur Genting Highlands pada 1995.
“Debris flow ini berpunca daripada tiga faktor alam sekitar iaitu keadaan cuaca, keadaan muka bumi dan geologi, di mana ia turut berkaitan dengan sumber air atas bukit.
“Tekanan air atas bukit yang kuat ini turut membawa sekali batu, pokok serta tanah dan mengakibatkan pergerakan tanah punca berlakunya tanah runtuh,” katanya.
Landslides have hit an orphanage near the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, killing 16 people, many of them children, officials say – BBC
The Star
Sunday May 22, 2011
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/5/22/nation/8734715&sec=nation
The back portion of the Rumah Anak Yatim Hidayah in Hulu Langat where the landslide occured - 21 May, 2011
HULU LANGAT: A boy was pulled out alive eight hours after two landslides hit an orphanage in Hulu Langat, killing 13 people.
He was among 49 people who were attending a motivational course and luncheon at the Rumah Anak Yatim Hidayah at the 14th mile Jalan Felcra Semungkus in Hulu Langat.
When the landslides occurred at about 2.30pm following overnight rain, 25 were buried by tonnes of earth while the others narrowly escaped.
Police said as at 2am, 13 bodies were pulled out and nine victims rushed to hospitals, among whom was the boy. A massive search and rescue operation is going on for those still missing.
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21 May 2011 Last updated at 22:09 GMT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13482874
The BBC’s Jennifer Pak says authorities will now be asking some hard questions – and looking for hard answers
Landslides have hit an orphanage near the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, killing 16 people, many of them children, officials say.
Rescuers saved nine people from the Hidayah Madrasah al-Taqwa orphanage in the district of Hulu Langat.
The rescue operation, which was hampered by rain, has now ended.
Rescuers used bulldozers, spades and their bare hands to try to reach survivors, and floodlights were brought in after night fell.
A total of 20 children and five adult carers were taking part in an event in a tent at the orphanage – which is located on a slope – when it was hit by two landslides, within seconds of each other, on Saturday afternoon.
Che Rosli Che Mat, an opposition lawmaker, told AFP news agency: “The landslide happened very fast. Only a few children managed to escape.”
Opposition politicians told the BBC that many trees had been been cut down in the area, to make way for development schemes.
Police told people in nearby houses to leave the area amid concerns of further landslides.
In pictures: Hidayah Madrasah al-Taqwa orphanage landslide 21 MAY 2011
The Star
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/5/22/nation/8734616&sec=nation
HULU LANGAT: Some landslide victims underwent emergency amputations to save their lives.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said one or two victims had to have their limbs amputated at the makeshift treatment centre on site before they were sent to hospital.
He added that teams from the Ampang, Kajang and Kuala Lumpur hospitals rushed to the scene to provide emergency medical aid.
Liow said there were two specialists, nine doctors and 25 paramedics treating the victims.
“The treatment centre was set up to stabilise the patients before they are sent to hospitals,” he said at the site last night, adding that there were about 20 ambulances available.
Last updated at 2:02 PM on 21st May 2011
About 30 children were buried by a landslide that hit a Malaysian orphanage and two bodies have been recovered so far, police said today.
A district police officer said firefighters and villagers pulled out six children who were critically injured and they were rushed to a hospital. The incident happened close to the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
The officer declined to be named because he is not authorised to speak to the media.
The officer said heavy rainfall had likely caused the landslide that hit the orphanage in central Selangor state this afternoon.
He said rain was still falling and hampering rescue work, which would last until nightfall.
A rescuer uses a construction machine to search for the bodies believed to be buried by the landslide which engulfed an orphanage in Hulu Langat in central Selangor state, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Rescuers pause to inspect the building before they carry on. The orphanage house was half buried by the landslide
The red earth of the mountain can be seen after the landslide. A police officer said heavy rainfall is believed to have loosened the earth causing it to happen
Alive but injured, this orphan is carried away from the scene of the disaster
Terrible news: A woman holds her hand to her mouth as she talks on a mobile phone at the site of landslideBy the CNN Wire Staff
May 21, 2011 — Updated 1927 GMT (0327 HKT)
Emergency workers remove a child from an orphanage that was hit by a landslide in Hulu Langat, Selangor, on Saturday
(CNN) — Two dozen people, mainly children, were buried alive when a landslide took down an orphanage in Malaysia on Saturday, the national news agency said.
The victims were mostly orphans and staff of the orphanage in Hulu Langat, southeast of the capital, Kuala Lumpur. The landslide, triggered by heavy rains, occurred at 2:30 in the afternoon when all the children were gathered in a main hall at the orphanage, the Bernama news agency said.
By Saturday evening, a search-and-rescue team had pulled nine orphans out of the debris. Three children died at the scene, and the other six were rushed to a hospital, Selangor Police Chief Datuk Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah said at a news conference.
“We learned that two landslides occurred simultaneously at the orphanage,” he said. “All the victims did not have time to escape.”
Published: Saturday May 21, 2011 MYT 4:54:00 PM
Updated: Sunday May 22, 2011 MYT 1:42:06 AM
Rescuers looking for survivors at Rumah Anak Yatim Hidayah in Hulu Langat - 21 May, 2011
KAJANG: A landslide hit an orphanage Saturday afternoon killing 13 and leaving three still buried.
Firemen and villagers managed to pull out nine soon after the landslide hit Rumah Anak Yatim Hidayah, Madrasah Al-Takwa, Jalan Felcra Semungkus, 14th mile, Hulu Langat, near Kajang at 2.30pm.
At 10.45pm, a boy was pulled out alive after being buried for over eight hours.
Rescuers rushing one of the injured children to the ward at Ampang HospitalThe dead and alive have been sent to the Ampang and Kajang Hospitals.
“Two landslides occurred simultaneously. All the victims did not have time to escape,” said Selangor CPO Datuk Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah at a press conference at 6.45pm.
A total of 49 students and caretakers were there but 24 escaped unhurt.
The back portion of the orphanage where the landslide occurredThe orphanage was partially buried by the landslides at about 2.30pm on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Deputy IGP Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said that rescuers were being hampered by wet soil and rain.
He also appealed to the crowd of onlookers to stay back and allow the rescuers to do their work unimpeded.
Bernama reported that in ALOR GAJAH, Malacca, Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalildirected the Social Welfare Department and the ‘Skuad Sayang’ (Caring Squad) to provide immediate assistance to the orphans and family of the victims.
“I will get in touch with the police to obtain detailed information and the actual cause of the landslide so that my ministry can take follow-up action to assist the victms,” she said.
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