KUCHING: An unidentified businessman chartered a helicopter to airlift his elderly parents, who were among some 3,000 villagers stranded in the floods in Bau on Wednesday.
The authorities too had to deploy a helicopter to rush a woman in labour from Siniawan to the Sarawak General Hospital here, said Deputy Minister for National Unity and Community Development Dr Tiki Lafe yesterday.
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