Collapsed road poses daily threat to over 1,000 Temiar Orang Asli folk in Gua Musang


Kampung Hanir village chief Razak Rongging, 41, surveying the condition of the collapsed road leading to Pos Tuel near Gua Musang. - Photo: Bernama

GUA MUSANG: More than 1,000 Orang Asli from the Temiar tribe in Pos Tuel claim they have been risking their lives daily by using a collapsed road in their village.

They claim that the road collapsed due to heavy vehicles, which belong to a company that has cleared the land for vegetable and fruit planting, using the same road to get to their agricultural site.

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