The SMART team in action on Mt Kinabalu in the aftermath of the June 5 earthquake.
PETALING JAYA: The now-viral account of the Sabah earthquake by an Australian climber and her criticisms of the official rescue efforts may have been clouded by her traumatic experience, says National Security Council secretary Datuk Mohamed Thajudeen Abdul Wahab.
In a press release issued on the Council's website, Mohamed Thajudeen refuted Vee Jin Dumlao's claim that no helicopters came to rescue the climbers stranded on Mount Kinabalu's peak following rockfalls caused by last Friday’s earthquake which measured at 5.9 on the Richter scale.
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