Malaysian landslide victims sue, accusing officials of negligence

Chin Su King and her 5-year-old son Daniel Khor Yen Hong were both killed in the Batang Kali landslide. Tan Ei Ein lost her 7-year-old son Zech (photo on the wall) in the Batang Kali landslide. Teckwyn Lim, a geographer and honorary associate professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia, investigated the tragedy for the plaintiffs. "If the people in charge, if the government had been doing its job then those lives wouldn’t have been lost,” Lim told VOA. FILE - Rescue teams search for victims caught in a landslide in Batang Kali, Malaysia, Dec. 17, 2022.

Survivors and family members of campers killed in a 2022 landslide at an agritourism farm in Malaysia have filed a lawsuit contending the disaster was caused by negligence – not only excessive rainfall as an earlier government report concluded.