DANGER LAKE: (July 25) Tasik Chini, the country’s second-largest freshwater lake, is contaminated with high levels of e-coli, the bacteria that may have caused rashes and diarrhoea among the orang asli living near it. This has prompted Pahang to warn the 400 villagers, including 100 children aged six and under, not to drink water from the lake and nearby wells.
BODIES FOUND: (July 27) All seven people on board the Hornbill Skyways helicopter, which went missing in a remote area of Sarawak on July 12, were found dead. The helicopter's wreckage was found about 4km from the foot of Gunung Murud, north-west of the original flight route – a place that had been thoroughly searched previously. They dead were assistant state minister in the Chief Minister’s Department Dr Judson Tagal, contractor Datuk Marcus Raja, Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation (Sesco) CEO Roger Wong, Sesco northern Sarawak manager Ling Kian Ho, Sesco engineer Jason Eng, Padawan Municipal Council chairman Lawrence Th’ng and pilot Capt Samsuddin Hassim.
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