Ranau landslip due to land clearing and building of houses, says state minister


Sabah InfrastructureDevelopment Minister Datuk Peter Anthony (left) being briefed of the Ranau landslip at Km98 Kota Kinabalu-Sandakan road that cut off the east coast and west coast of Sabah.

KOTA KINABALU: The state government has ordered a halt on all land clearing and housing development by villagers around the site of a massive Ranau landslide along the main road link between Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan.

Sabah Infrastructure Development Minister Datuk Peter Anthony, who visited the site of the landslide that cut off an 80m section of the road between Ranau and Kundasang, said that such activities might have triggered the Sunday (Dec 8) night landslide during the current wet weather.

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