Malaysia Takes Every Effort To Find Indian Citizen Buried Alive On Jalan Ambles

Illustration. The phenomenon of land subsides several times in Gunung Kidul Regency. One of them was in Karangawen Hamlet, Girisubo District, in January 2020. (Between)

JAKARTA - The Malaysian SAR team has carried out a number of ways to find an Indian tourist woman who was dragged by the subsidence road buried alive on Jalan Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur.

Police Inspector General Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said the officers had used the bottle method to put it in a sewer near the collapsed location hole, which flowed to the Indah Water Consortium (IWK) Pantai Dalam processing plant.

"If you follow the flow of water, it is about 5.3 to 6 kilometers from the location of the collapsed hole, to the IWK Pantai Dalam processing plant," he said at a press conference after reviewing the SAR search operation, Tuesday, August 27, quoted from The Sun Daily.

The SAR team also used cameras that were put along the sewer in the process of searching for victims who were Indian tourists.

The Malaysian Nuclear Agency and the Department of Mineral and Geoscience are also monitoring and scanning the location of the collapsed hole today, said Razarudin.

Razarudin also appealed to the public near the scene not to worry about safety and security. He asked not to swallow the issue that the location of the incident was prone to subsidence.

He said the search for a victim named Vijayaletchumi, 48, from Andhra Pradesh, India had entered its fifth day on Tuesday, August 27.

The search has utilized the method of welding equipment, drain spraying, and groundfill radar.

More than 115 members of the SAR team from the Fire and Rescue Service, Kuala Lumpur City Hall, IWK, People's Volunteer Corps (Rela) were involved in this search.