A rescuer uses a dredger to search for the bodies believed to be buried by a landslide that hit an orphanage house in Hulu Langat, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Some 30 children were buried by a landslide that hit a Malaysian orphanage due to heavy rain, with two bodies recovered so far, police said. Photo: AP
A rescuer uses a dredger to search for the bodies believed to be buried by a landslide that hit an orphanage house in Hulu Langat, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Some 30 children were buried by a landslide that hit a Malaysian orphanage due to heavy rain, with two bodies recovered so far, police said. Photo: AP
A general view shows a landslide that half buried an orphanage house in Hulu Langat, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Some 30 children were buried by a landslide that hit a Malaysian orphanage Saturday due to heavy rain, with two bodies recovered so far, police said. Photo: AP
Emergency teams work at the site of a landslide that hit an orphanage in Hulu Langat, Malaysia. Two landslides that hit a Malaysian orphanage, killing 15 boys and one adult but nine others survived. Photo: AP
Policemen close the entrance to the orphanage where a landslide occured in Hulu Langat, a district in the southeast part of Selangor, Malaysia. Three people were killed and 11 others are still trapped by the landslide. Photo: AP
Family members pay the final respects to their victim who was killed in the Saturday's landslide during a funeral at a mosque in Hulu Langat in central Selangor state, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Two landslides that hit a Malaysian orphanage killed 15 boys and one adult but nine others survived, police said Sunday. Photo: AP
Rescuers inspect an orphanage house after it was half buried by a landslide in Hulu Langat outside Kuala Lumpur. A landslide hit the orphanage with about 30 residents and the bodies of six children have been recovered, as reported by Malaysia's daily The Star online. Photo: Reuters
Rescuers carry a survivor from a landslide that half buried an orphanage house in Hulu Langat outside Kuala Lumpur. Two landslides that hit a Malaysian orphanage killed 15 boys and one adult but nine other people survived. Photo: AP
A woman talks on a mobile phone at the site of landslide that half buried an orphanage house in Hulu Langat outside Kuala Lumpur. A landslide hit the orphanage with about 30 residents and the bodies of six children have been recovered, as reported by Malaysia's daily The Star online. Photo: Reuters
Muslims lower the body of a victim who was killed in a landslide during a burial in Hulu Langat in central Selangor state, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Two landslides that hit an orphanage killed 15 boys and one adult but nine others survived, police said after a nearly 15-hour rescue mission ended. Photo: AP
Muslims lower a victim's body who was killed in a landslide during a burial in Hulu Langat in central Selangor state, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Two landslides that hit a Malaysian orphanage killed 15 boys and one adult but nine other people survived, police said after ending a nearly 15 hour-long rescue mission. Photo: AP
Muslims lower bodies of victims who were killed in a landslide during a burial in Hulu Langat in central Selangor state, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Two landslides that hit a Malaysian orphanage killed 15 boys and one adult but nine other people survived, police said after ending a nearly 15 hour-long rescue mission. Photo: AP
Published May 22, 2011
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Two landslides that hit a Malaysian orphanage killed 15 boys and one adult but nine people survived, police said Sunday after a nearly 15-hour rescue mission ended. District police chief Abdul Rashid Wahab said the bodies of 15 boys, aged 8 to 18, and a 34-year-old caretaker had been recovered. Six boys and three wardens who were critically injured in the landslides have been hospitalised, he said. Medical officers had to amputate the leg of one of the boys at the site after he was pulled out due to a severe injury that caused incessant bleeding, health ministry official Azmi Shapie said. Abdul Rashid said the last rescued victim, a 9-year-old boy, was pulled out nearly eight hours after tons of earth crashed through the orphanage for ethnic Malay Muslim boys in a sleepy village in central Selangor state. The 25 people buried by the landslides were among 49 who were attending a motivational camp at the orphanage, he said. Most of the boys were orphans, but details were still unclear.
Mohamad Hambali Ismail, a warden at the orphanage, told local media that the children were preparing to receive visitors when the earth shook.
