Stop-gap measure: Giant sandbags on Batu Ferringhi beach installed in September are now being washed away, exacerbated by climate change and weather phenomena. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star
GEORGE TOWN: By burying 700 sandbags along a 250m stretch on Batu Ferringhi, contractors had reshaped the mildly sloping beach that the tourist spot was once famous for.
But that beach stretch lasted less than three months before the sea claimed it once more, the waves eating away at the sand.
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