Survivors recollect the Pos Dipang mudslide tragedy after 27 years


In conversation: The speakers (second from left) Shaharudin, Capt Jasri and Jali during the narrative session with moderator Mohd Nasir Ismail (left) at the Perak National Archives Department.

IPOH: It was 27 years ago, but Alang Bah Aunyang, 57, (pic) still cannot forget the sight of his uncle desperately trying to hang on to a tree trunk as raging floodwaters threatened to tear away the elderly man’s frail body.

Alang’s Orang Asli village of Pos Dipang had been turned into a raging river where wooden houses and people were being swept away in a torrent of brown water, logs and broken trees right in front of his eyes.

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