Slides of Land

It was nearly a repeat of events which occurred more than two weeks ago after heavy rain in the whole region triggered several landslides.

This time around heavy rain caused four separate landslides in Miri, endangering eleven houses which are located close to the scene of the landslides.

At around 9am a house at Kampung Lereng Bukit and another house was hit by earth and mud flow from the direction of Kampung Hj Wahed at Canada Hill.

The second landslide occurred again at Kampung Lereng Bukit at about 1 pm, however this time it brought down another six more houses and two vehicles at the site.

Mud and earth which slid down from the hill slope blocking the main road inside the village also toppled down an electric post cutting off power supply to the area.

The other landslides were at Kampung Lereng Bukit, Taman Futee, Kampung Tunku Abdul Rahman and Sungai Rait.
No casualty were reported as villagers and residents already on the alert for possible dangers after a long rainy spell.

At Taman Futee, the slope gave way at a semi-detached house, destroying a store in the backyard while in Kampung Tunku Abdul Rahman, a nearly completed house was in danger of collapsing after a landslide occurred the back of the house.

Villagers there has helped put sandbags and cover the exposed slope with canvass to keep rainwater out of the earth.

The previous landslides the past two weeks claimed five lives in the northern region where three timber workers in Medamit, Limbang and two petrol station workers in Miri were buried alive.