SHIRRI GANAESH MURUGAN & PUA WEN XIN
AT least 31 people, including young children, were killed in a landslide that hit a campsite near Genting Highlands on Dec 16 last year.
The fatal landslide struck along a road near the Father’s Organic Farm, about 4.5km or a 10-minute drive from Gohtong Jaya in Genting Highlands.
In investigating events like this, a geologist will pay attention to factors that could have triggered the incident. For the geologist, “factors“ simply means geohazards that were dominant and unseen within the land terrain.
Water flowing underneath the terrain where the tower stood caused the softening of the soil which eventually brought the tower down.
