The body of a 78-year-old grandmother who was buried in Tuesday’s landslip in Kundsang was recovered at 12.15pm on Wednesday.
A Fire and Rescue Services’s Special Technical Operation Rescue Malaysia (STORM) personnel recovered the body of Dohumie Kintie buried under a landslip at the remote Kg Masilau on the foothills of Mount Kinabalu.
The 21-member STORM team was brought in a 5am to carry out search and rescue operations for the woman who was reportedly in the area picking strawberries when the landslip occurred at around 10.45am on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the department in confirming the recovery of the body said further details would be released later.
Dohumie is believed to have taken shelter from a downpour in a hut that was hit by tonnes of rock and mud in the landslip.
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The 21-member STORM team was brought in a 5am to carry out search and rescue operations for the woman who was reportedly in the area picking strawberries when the landslip occurred at around 10.45am on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the department in confirming the recovery of the body said further details would be released later.
Dohumie is believed to have taken shelter from a downpour in a hut that was hit by tonnes of rock and mud in the landslip.
The landslip was triggered by a heavy rain fall accompanied by winds gusting up to 85km/h on Tuesday morning due to a tropical depression in eastern Philippines that wreaked havoc with trees uprooted by strong winds causing electricity cables to snap leaving some 30,000 consumers without power supplies.
