KAMPAR: Shafie Bahoi still has tears in his eyes when he recalls how he lost his pregnant wife and their three-year-old son during the huge mudslide in Pos Dipang near here 27 years ago.
He could only watch helplessly from his father’s house – where he had saved the older man – as the water and debris tore through his house.Time may have eased the pain, but when he heard of the landslide that hit Batang Kali exactly a month ago, the agony came rushing back.
Recalling his ordeal, the 51-year-old said: “Our house was located a few metres away from my father’s house, which was near a river. So, when the water level rose, I ran over and tried to bring him out of the house.” “I have never forgotten about them,” said Shafie who remarried a few years later and has several children.
On Dec 16, 2022, a landslide struck Father’s Organic Farm campsite along the Batang Kali-Genting stretch in the wee hours of the morning, killing 30 people. Apa Bengal, a retired villager, is hoping that Sungai Dipang can have an alarm system that would sound if the water rises.
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