GEORGE TOWN: Fourteen workers were at the Tanjung Bungah construction site when thousands of tons of laterite earth slid down from a cut slope about 10m high on Saturday (Oct 21).
Penang Island City Council mayor Datuk Maimunah Mohd Sharif confirmed the number of those feared buried at 11.45am in the first official statement from the local authority on the disaster.
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