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.