Disaster zone: An aerial view of the recent landslide in Tanjung Bungah, Penang. (Right) An aerial view of the brown water flowing into the sea from Sungai Kelian.
GEORGE TOWN: Nobody knew a natural disaster was waiting to happen until Sungai Kelian in Tanjung Bungah turned brown and silty.
The sudden profusion of laterite mud flowing out to sea was caused by a landslide even bigger than the one that killed 11 people at a Tanjung Bungah construction site last year.
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