GEORGE TOWN: A malfunctioned air-conditioning unit has been blamed for the smoke at Komtar on Friday which forced about 2,000 civil servants and state exco members, including the Chief Minister, to evacuate the building.
The Penang Development Corporation’s Setia Urus deputy chief executive officer Saw Kean Thai said initial investigation by the Fire and Rescue Department identified that the thick smoke from the building at 2.45pm was from a “smouldering insulation of the air-conditioning duct”.
