Boy survives as four girls are swept away at park


By G.C.TAN

Moments before disaster: Three of the siblings playing at the Lubuk Semilang waterfall just before they were swept away by the sudden strong currents. — Bernama

LANGKAWI: The authorities have recovered the bodies of all four girls who were swept downstream by a sudden surge of water at a waterfall in the Lubuk Semilang Recreational Park here.

A teenage boy cheated death after some rocks and driftwood stopped him from being swept away before he was rescued by bystanders in the Thursday incident.

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