Floods: Bomba rescue supermarket employees trapped in shophouse in Kota Tinggi


Firefighters saved supermarket employees from a shop house in Kota Tinggi. The town has been experiencing severe flooding recently.

KOTA TINGGI: Eight employees of a supermarket who were trapped in a shophouse after the water level rose to 1.5m in Kota Tinggi were rescued by the Fire and Rescue Department on Friday (March 3).

The women employees who were renting a premises above the supermarket were rescued by a team from Kota Tinggi Fire and Rescue Station led by Zone 2 Johor Deputy Fire Superintendent II Tahrin Saat at 11am.

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