Firefighters battling bush fire at Chinese cemetery in Penang


Firefighters putting out the fire at the Batu Lanchang Chinese cemetery on Friday.

GEORGE TOWN: Firefighters are at the Batu Lanchang Chinese cemetery in Lorong Batu Lanchang here battling a bush fire for more than three hours.

State Fire and Rescue Department spokesman Azman Husin said the department received a distress call at 11.36am Friday and firefighters from Jalan Perak and voluntary fire fighting squads from Perak Lane and Paya Terubong went to the scene.

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