Rain could have caused fatal Penang landslide, says CM


Looi Sue-Chern

Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow says the state's recent rainy weather may have caused a fatal landslide today, which killed at least 2 people. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Seth Akmal, October 19, 2018.

THE recent rainy weather in Penang could have contributed to the fatal landslide today in Paya Terubong, Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said.

“I believe that weather, which is the rain, was one of the factors,” he told reporters after visiting the site this evening.


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  • Incompetence and lack of integrity is the cause. Other countries can build on steep gradients without all these mishaps.

    Posted 5 years ago by Malaysia New hope

  • How intelligent, imaginative & original of CM Chow Kon Yeow to remark that rain may have been among the factors that caused the latest disastrous landslide! Spoken like a typical bureaucrat.

    Posted 5 years ago by Antares Maitreya