Company suspended for discharging waste into Sungai Sembrong

Some of the dead fishes and giant freshwater prawns found floating in Sungai Sembrong on June 1.

KLUANG: The Environment Department (DOE) in Johor has suspended a company believed to be responsible for polluting Sungai Sembrong in Kluang and causing thousands of fish and giant freshwater prawns (udang galah) to die.

State health and environment committee chairman R. Vidyananthan said DOE staff had checked the river and were currently monitoring the situation.