Thirty four people had a narrow escape when a bus, a lorry and a four-wheel drive vehicle they were travelling in were struck by falling trees and thick mud on the road in Miruru, Ranau about 190km from here.
It is the main road connecting the state capital here and the major east coast districts such as Sandakan, Tawau, Lahad Datu, Beluran, Kinabatangan and Semporna.
Public Works Department workers and those from road maintanence contractors managed to clear a single lane of the road to allow motorists through by noon.
Vehicles, mostly lorries transporting goods, passenger buses and vans, lined up by the road at both ends of the landslides, number six, about 20km west of Telupid town and about 70km from Ranau town.
Heavy rain in Sungai Labuk also brought flash floods to three villages in the Telupid area, less than five kilometres away from where the landslides were, cutting access to vehicles for about three hours from 3am to 6am.
Police said there were 32 people in the bus that was hit by a tree adding that they were travelling from here to Tawau when it happened at about 12.25am.
"There were also one four wheel drive vehicle and a lorry that got caught in the mud as well as the fallen trees," the police spokesman said.
The two drivers and those in the bus were not hurt.
It is the main road connecting the state capital here and the major east coast districts such as Sandakan, Tawau, Lahad Datu, Beluran, Kinabatangan and Semporna.
Public Works Department workers and those from road maintanence contractors managed to clear a single lane of the road to allow motorists through by noon.
Vehicles, mostly lorries transporting goods, passenger buses and vans, lined up by the road at both ends of the landslides, number six, about 20km west of Telupid town and about 70km from Ranau town.
Heavy rain in Sungai Labuk also brought flash floods to three villages in the Telupid area, less than five kilometres away from where the landslides were, cutting access to vehicles for about three hours from 3am to 6am.
Police said there were 32 people in the bus that was hit by a tree adding that they were travelling from here to Tawau when it happened at about 12.25am.
"There were also one four wheel drive vehicle and a lorry that got caught in the mud as well as the fallen trees," the police spokesman said.
The two drivers and those in the bus were not hurt.
kredit : New Straits Times
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