Residents stop authorities from flattening homes

Halted: Some of the Rumah Hijau residents blocking MPSP enforcement officers from pulling down units within the area in Butterworth.

AUTHORITIES were stopped from carrying out demolition works at the Rumah Hijau village in Mak Mandin, Butterworth, whose occupants had been given eviction orders.

Seberang Prai Municipal Council and Public Works Department workers had torn down five abandoned houses but were stopped by Rumah Hijau Residents Association members and several residents when the workers moved their two bulldozers to demolish five other houses that were occupied.