SELANGOR Fire and Rescue Department director Norazam Khamis, who worked tirelessly directing the search-and-rescue operations at the scene of the Batang Kali landslide, has been hospitalised following a mild stroke and exhaustion.

In a statement, the department said Norazam admitted to Selayang Hospital at 6pm today.

“His condition is stable and he is conscious. The operation to search for the victims will go on. Let us all pray for his recovery,” the department said in a statement today posted on its Facebook page.

In the 2.42am incident on Friday, a landside measuring almost 300m long and 70m high came crashing onto the campsite located along the Jalan Genting-Batang Kali.

Up to this evening, the search-and-rescue operations continued for nine victims who are still missing.

Twenty-four out of 94 people who were at the campsite died in the tragedy. Sixty-one people were rescued. – December 19, 2022.