Residents recall panic and pandemonium before fleeing

To safer grounds: Residents of Taman Mega Jaya moving out after the authorities ordered them to vacate their premises.

KUALA LUMPUR: First, there was a siren. And then – pandemonium.

Residents of Taman Mega Jaya recalled yesterday how they fled for their lives after tonnes of earth came tumbling down in a landslide that struck their housing area along Jalan Teratai 1/2J.