Landslides

2022 - 12 - 25

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Body of last landslide victim recovered (MalaysiaNow)

Among the victims were 11 children and 14 women, according to the fire and rescue department.

The boy was estimated to be around seven years old. Among the victims were 11 children and 14 women, according to the fire and rescue department. Rescue workers, in their ninth day of search operations, found the body of a boy in a sleeping bag while digging through mud and debris, Hulu Selangor police chief Suffian Abdullah said.

Malaysia landslide: Batang Kali rescuers recover body of last victim (CNA)

KUALA LUMPUR: The final victim of the Batang Kali landslide was found on Saturday (Dec 24), eight days after the deadly tragedy. According to a tweet by the ...

Search Ends for Malaysia Landslide Victims (Voice of America)

According to police, 92 people, including dozens of children, were sleeping at the unlicensed campsite at an organic farm in Batang Kali, Selangor state on ...

Landslides are common in Malaysia after heavy rains that regularly punctuate the end of the year. In one of the deadliest such incidents, a mudslide in 1993 brought on by heavy rain caused a 12-story residential building outside the capital to collapse, killing 48 people. However, no heavy rain was recorded in the Batang Kali area on the night of the landslide.

'We found the last body': Rescuers end Malaysia landslide search ... (WION)

Rescuers in Malaysia have called off the search for bodies after a landslide blanketed a campsite located just north of the capital Kuala Lumpur killed 31 ...

The campsite was located at an organic farm near Batang Kali in Selangor state. Landslides are common in Malaysia post heavy rainfall which is regular at the end of the year. Rescuers in Malaysia have called off the search for bodies after a landslide blanketed a campsite located just north of the capital Kuala Lumpur killed 31 people, officials said on Saturday.

Monitor landslide risks in Penang - Aliran (Aliran)

Penang Hills Watch (PHW) extends our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims of the recent landslide disaster that struck the ...

Nine lives were sacrificed due to engineering and safety negligence – an obvious non-compliance of the 2012 safety guidelines The Tun Sardon Road, built in the early 1980s to improve access from the lower Paya Terubong valley to Balik Pulau, is still fraught with slope failures and land slips. The 21 October 2017 landslide tragedy that claimed 11 lives at the Granito project in Tanjung Bungah could have been avoided if there had been due diligence in complying with the 2012 safety guidelines. The increasing expansion of building and road infrastructure development into hilly terrain has resulted in more cut-and-fill slopes that are invariably steeper than the natural slopes they replace. While this is an important stop-gap measure to avoid campers being subjected to the risk of landslide disasters, it is even more critical to tackle the root cause of such disasters. In June 2021 excessive rainfall run-off caused a flash flood of muddy water in front of the Surin Condominium in Tanjung Bungah.

Malaysia landslide's last victim body recovered (TRT World)

Rescue teams in Malaysia have recovered the body of the last person unaccounted for after a landslide that flattened a campsite last week, bringing what is ...

The boy was estimated to be around seven years old. Rescue teams in Malaysia have recovered the body of the last person unaccounted for after a landslide that flattened a campsite last week, bringing what is thought to be the final death toll to 31. Of the 92 people initially trapped in the landslide, 61 people were found safe.

Landslide victims wait for relief (MyRepublica)

KALIKOT, Dec 25: One of the landslide victims, Sita Shahi, 46, whose house collapsed due to a landslide at Tilagufa-4, Ranchuli, last September, ...

According to the CDO, Ramhari Sharma of Kalikot, 340 families were affected by the landslides in Tilagufa and Khandachakra and food aid worth Rs 13,500 per family was distributed with the help of donors. With the help of Start Fund, her family living in the house of the local Bhandari Shahi, have also received food aid worth Rs 13,500. KALIKOT, Dec 25: One of the landslide victims, Sita Shahi, 46, whose house collapsed due to a landslide at Tilagufa-4, Ranchuli, last September, has been staying at her neighbor's house.

Malaysia landslide: Death toll rises to 31, search ends (Taiwan News)

Among the deceased were 11 children. All those who died were Malaysian nationals. A total of 61 campers were rescued. Many of the victims were families enjoying ...

"We found the last body, that of a boy. According to authorities, one of the causes of the landslide could have been the "accumulation of underground water and high soil saturation" beneath the campsite. Ninety-two people were sleeping at the campsite when tons of soil and mud thundered down a hill.

Landslides worsen in Mekong Delta (Vietnamnet)

Landslides are getting worse in the Mekong Delta in both scale and frequency. What do we need to do to minimize the negative impacts of landslides in the ...

Additionally, the lack of alluvium sediments and mud cause the mangrove forests’ shrinkage and weaken their ability to protect the land and reduce the height of winds and swell waves. Moreover, improper sea sand mining will speed up landslides and cause serious harm to the mangrove forests and ecosystem. “Due to the reduction of brackish habitats, some new types of worms have appeared and caused harm, even death, to the mangrove palms,” Tuan said. The concrete pillars should be made in Bien Hoa, Dong Nai Province, where the mineral resources are still abundant, and then moved to the Mekong Delta. Le Anh Tuan, former deputy director of the Research Institute for Climate Change at Can Tho University, the alluvium and sand sedimentation helped minimize the speed of landslides in the past. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development statistics, the whole region experienced 621 landslide sites, with a total length of 610 kilometers. Among those, the region had 147 extremely dangerous landslide sites with a total length of 127 kilometers and 137 hazardous landslide sites totaling 193 kilometers. “As we report the landslides to the authorities, they will consider reinforcing the embankments or relocating them,” she said. Similarly, the sea has swept away around 150-200 meters of the coastline in Bao Thuan Commune, Ba Tri District, Ben Tre Province, for nearly 10 years. Riverbank landslides force the locals to move their houses. That means it causes some 20 meters of coastline to disappear each year in this province. In this area, tens of hectares of shrimp farming areas have disappeared due to coastal landslides.

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