Landslide cuts off 15,000 people

Landslide cuts off 15,000 people

KUALA LUMPUR (AP): About 15,000 residents of a Malaysian highlands resort area were stranded when a landslide cut off all road and telephone links.

Residents of Cameron Highlands, a hill resort region in central Malaysia, are still recovering from a mud slide that claimed six lives on Thursday.

They were said to be unable to come down to town or make calls to their relatives outside the area, the national Bernama news agency reported.

People were working around the clock to clear and repair the road damaged by tons of earth brought down the waterlogged hill, Bernama said.