Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Body of missing woman in Kinabalu landslip found by special rescue unit

Search and Rescue team including firemen, policemen, JPAM and villagers searching for the victims at the landside scene.


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.



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