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Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Three Children Swept Away By Strong Current At Waterfall

KUALA PILAH, May 3 (Bernama) -- Three sisters went missing after they were swept away by a strong current while bathing at the Ulu Bendul Recreation Forest near here Tuesday.

They were Nur Syaza Alisa Syed Ahmad Ibrahim, 5, Nur Syaza Azira, 4, and Nur Syaza Sakirah, 2.

Kuala Pilah police chief Supt Jaafar Baba their father, Syed Ahmad Ibrahim, 28, and his female acquaintance, Alwani Abu Hasan in her 20s, were saved by other picnickers.

He said Syed Ahmad and Alwani were warded at the Kuala Pilah Hospital for injuries.

"The children were swept away by water which came gushing down the stream. It had been raining in the area since 4pm," he told reporters at the scene.

The recreational site is located at Km 20 of Jalan Seremban-Kuala Pilah at Angsi Forest Reserve, about 20 minutes by car from here.

He said a search and rescue operation had been mounted by about 40 policemen, Rela members, Civil Defence Department members and fire-fighters.

Meanwhile, the mother of the children, Wan Azlela Wan Ibrahim, 27, was at the scene to observe the operation.

A picnicker, Turiman Bostam, 42, said incident happened very fast.

"It was drizzling at the picnic area. A wall of water suddenly came down due to heavy downpour upstream. I was coming down from the campground to the recreation area when it occurred," he said.

Turiman said he saw three children were tossed into the air by a wall of water and he tried to save them but to no avail.

"I grabbed a woman's hand but it slipped from my hand but I managed to pull her hair," he said, adding that other picnickers managed to save a man, who was later identified as the father of the victims.

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