Tanjung Bungah landslide: Calls for urgent RCI as anger mounts


  • Nation
  • Saturday, 21 Oct 2017

According to SAM president S. M Mohamed Idris, the NGO had written to the Penang powers-that-be

PETALING JAYA: Public anger is mounting over the deadly landslide which buried over a dozen workers at a construction site at Tanjung Bungah, Penang on Saturday morning (Oct 21).

Previous warnings to the Penang government over the dangers of over-developing the hillslopes had fallen on deaf ears.

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