KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has extended his condolences to the families of three victims who were killed in mud floods after water was released from the Ringlet Dam, Cameron Highlands, early yesterday.
The prime minister in his Twitter post hoped relevant authorities would give their best effort in the search and rescue operations to look for a missing person.
Two people were found drowned while another died of a heart attack when a wall of water came gushing down from the dam in Lembah Bertam at about 1am.
The police identified the dead as an Indonesian woman, Kesmat, 46, a Bangladeshi, Jahangir in his 30s, and a local, Tan Tuck Choi, 51, who died of a heart attack.
The mud floods affected about 80 houses. Rescuers are looking for a 17-year-old Indonesian girl who was reported missing after she was washed away by mud floods. — Bernama