Teacher braves floods to save exam papers in Dengkil


DENGKIL: "I was only thinking of my students’ final year examination papers that were still in the house,” said a teacher whose house in Kampung Chemperai here was flooded following heavy rain on Saturday (Dec 18).

Ruzita Che Him, 52 who is a Form Two teacher at SMK Bukit Changgang, Banting and her husband, Baharuddin Mohd Yonan, 61, braved about 600 metres of waist-high floodwaters to save the answer sheets which took them approximately an hour.

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