KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Dec 2008: Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today urged all the state governments to consider stopping housing projects on high-risk hillslopes. “It would be good if the other state governments disallow housing developments in hilly areas. It’s not a loss, it’s for safety,” he told a news conference after visiting the site […]
Bukit Antarabangsa
Apartment residents in Bt Antarabangsa to evacuate
KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Dec 2008: The police have instructed between 3,000 and 5,000 residents living in apartments and condominiums in the vicinity of the landslide in the Bukit Antarabangsa area in Hulu Klang, to evacuate. Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said the Malaysian Armed Forces’ engineering team are currently creating a pedestrian […]
Three killed in landslide (Updated)
(Updated 4:40pm, 6 Dec 2008) KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Dec 2008: A landslide occurred at about 4am today in Bukit Antarabangsa, Hulu Klang, near here and police confirmed that three people were killed in the incident which buried 14 bungalows in two housing estates. Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said at the scene the […]
