THE Sri Maha Athiswari Ambal Temple in Rantau, Negri Sembilan, has sustained extensive damage after being flooded, Makkal Osai reported.
Head priest Sri Shanmuga Seelan said the small river next to the temple overflowed into its compound after three hours of heavy rain on Monday.
The retaining wall at the entrance of the temple toppled while two small altars were also damaged, hampering devotees and staff from entering.
The temple has been flooded several times before but has not yet received help from local authorities and politicians to solve the recurring problem.
> A video of an Indian woman selling flowers in Klang being robbed of her thaali has gone viral, the daily also reported.
A group of men, their faces fully covered, entered a shop along Jalan Klang-Banting’s 15th Mile and threatened her with parang.
One of the men then grabbed her thaali, estimated to be worth about RM4,000, before the group made their getaway in a Proton Saga.
Kuala Langat deputy police chief DSP Mohd Sufian Amin confirmed that the victim has filed a police report on the matter.
The above article is 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 this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
