Sinkhole incident: SAR team's early morning dive hits another dead end
The Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department's (JBPM) attempt to locate the missing Indian national who fell into the sinkhole on Jalan Masjid India by exploring a nearby sewer channel has once again ended in failure.
Two scuba divers from the JBPM Northern Region Academy had descended into the sewer channel at 4am on Friday (Aug 30) to reach a suspected backlog area approximately 44 metres from the incident site.
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Two scuba divers from the JBPM Northern Region Academy had descended into the sewer channel at 4am on Friday (Aug 30) to reach a suspected backlog area approximately 44 metres from the incident site.
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00:00The Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department's attempt to locate the missing Indian national
00:04who fell into the sinkhole on Jalan Masjid India by exploring a nearby sewer channel
00:10has once again ended in failure.
00:12Two scuba divers from the JBPM Northern Region Academy
00:16had descended into the sewer channel at 4 am on Friday
00:20to reach a suspected backlog area approximately 44 metres from the incident site.
00:26The dive was conducted after the search and rescue team sealed off part of the channel
00:31and redirected the inflow to reduce the water level from 1.5 metres to 0.8 metres,
00:38employing the same method as the previous day.
00:41Members of the team reported that the divers faced significant challenges,
00:46including large amounts of rocks and sand in the channel
00:49while strong currents made it difficult to reach the backlog area.
00:53The search operation was temporarily suspended at 5 am and will resume later today.