Compiled by C. ARUNO, DIVYA THERESA RAVI and R. ARAVINTHAN
BERITA Harian reported that 37 teachers had to get on fire engines to collect the oral examination papers for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) exam in Tumpat.
The teachers were serving as exam invigilators and had to take the papers from the safe deposit room at SMK Tumpat on Monday.
They were transported in a five-tonne truck due to several roads leading to the flooded school being impassable to vehicles, including pickup trucks.
Wakaf Bharu Fire and Rescue Department chief Nazah Nafi said all the teachers gathered in Kampung Terbak first before they were taken in the fire engines.
“A team of three personnel were involved in the operation of transporting the group of teachers to collect the exam papers at the safe deposit room in SMK Tumpat before distributing them to SMK Geting and SM Ugama (Arab) Meheliah Geting.
“Several roads in Pengkalan Kubor are still flooded and light vehicles can’t pass through, including four-wheel drives,” he said.
Nazah said that for operations around Wakaf Bharu, evacuations have been discontinued as the water level has receded, but many areas are still flooded.
> An explosion at a wood- burning furnace in a factory injured five workers in Miri, Sarawak, Kosmo! reported.
A spokesman for the Sarawak Operations Centre said the victims included a worker from Indonesia and another from China.
He said the centre received a report of the incident on Monday and immediately sent a team from the Lutong Fire and Rescue Department to the location, which was about 11km away.
“Upon arrival at the scene, it was found that the fire was under control and did not involve the structure,” he added.
All victims have been sent to the hospital.
Four were scalded while the fifth was seriously injured.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
