Indian Residents Lost Falling Into Sinkhole, TAR Kuala Lumpur Lorong Night Market Closed

Sinkhole In Kuala Lumpur (between)

JAKARTA - Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) announced the closure of the Lorong Night Market, Abdul Rahman (TAR) on Saturday, August 31. This is for the search for Indians who disappeared after falling into a'sinkhole' near the Indian Mosque in Kuala Lumpur.

citing Antara, notification issued by the Department of Business Licensing and Development distributed by DBKL on social media accounts accessed in Kuala Lumpur, Friday, stated that following the subsidence of land on Jalan Masjid India on Friday (23/8), the operation of the Lorong TAR Night Market will be closed on August 31, 2024 for the purpose of searching for victims of the collapsed land.

In addition, DBKL said the closure was carried out for land testing by government agencies and the Indah Water Consortium in the area around Lorong TAR and the Indian Mosque, to determine the position and security of roads around the scene. This is necessary to ensure the safety of traders and the community.

Search and rescue (SAR) efforts against a 48-year-old Indian woman, Vijayaletchumy, who went missing after falling into a hole due to a eight-meter-deep subsidence ground around the Indian Mosque entering its seventh day. The victim was traveling in Malaysia with his family when the unfortunate events occurred, and plans to return to his country the following day.

Malaysia's National Police Chief (KPN) Razaruddin Husain in his statement to the media which was followed online on Thursday (29/8), said he had visited the scene twice before and after the land collapsed, which was about 50 meters from the location of the first collapsed land incident.

He said there was no need to declare the area around Jalan Masjid India as an unsafe area or disaster. To declare the area unsafe, the police need permission from the National Security Council.

Although not a disaster, according to him, the police, the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Service, DBKL, the Civil Rescue Forces, the Malaysian Nuclear Agency, Indah Water Consortium have carried out their duties seriously.