Tanah runtuh di PLKN semakin buruk

Caption: KESAN tanah runtuh yang memusnahkan sebahagian bangunan Kem Program Latihan Khidmat Negara (PLKN) Seri Mutiara Pantai Acheh bertambah teruk di Balik Pulau semalam
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YB Lim Guan Eng dalam kenyataan kepada media telah minta YAB TPM sebagai Menteri Pertahanan untuk menyiasat laporan bahawa tapak PKLN yang runtuh ini tidak mempunyai pelan kebenaran merancang sebagaimana yang biasa dipraktiskan oleh pihak pemaju lain. JMG Kedah/Perlis/P.Pinang, ada komen? Di bawah ini berita penuh:
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Oleh AZELI ALI
mohdazeli.ali@kosmo.com.my

BALIK PULAU – Keadaan tanah runtuh di Kem Program Latihan Khidmat Negara (PLKN) Sri Mutiara, Pantai Acheh di sini semakin buruk apabila sebuah lagi menanti masa menyembah bumi.
Tinjauan Kosmo! ke kawasan tersebut semalam mendapati bahagian dinding dua buah blok penginapan peserta itu sudah runtuh dan ia dikhuatiri menjadi lebih buruk kerana masih berlaku pergerakan tanah di bawah bangunan itu.
Lebih memburukkan keadaan air longkang yang dibiarkan mengalir menyebabkan tanah itu terhakis sedikit demi sedikit mengakibatkan sebuah blok bagaikan 'tergantung'.
Aliran air longkang itu membentuk lubang besar di bawah bangunan itu dan ia mungkin runtuh bila-bila masa sahaja sekiranya tidak dibaiki dengan segera.
Sebahagian tanah di kem PLKN itu runtuh kira-kira pukul 4.30 pagi Selasa lalu mengakibatkan banyak tanaman penduduk berhampiran musnah ditimbus tanah.
Sehubungan itu, Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang (MPPP) akan menjalankan siasatan terperinci terhadap kem yang beroperasi sejak tiga tahun lepas itu dan tidak menolak kemungkinan menutup kem itu jika tahap keselamatannya meragukan.


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And this one is the English version published by The STAR

Caption:Several blocks of the national service camp in Sri Mutiara Balik Pulau, Penang, perching dangerously on the edge of a cliff following a landslide on Tuesday. - Bernama

Caption:The camp hostels are in danger of collapsing if there is another landslide at the Balik Pulau NS camp
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Full story:

Thursday September 11, 2008
NS camp declared unsafe
By LOOI SUE-CHERN

BALIK PULAU: The landslide situation at Kem PLKN Sri Mutiara Balik Pulau remains unchanged and the National Service Depart­ment has confirmed that the camp is unsafe for operation.
Department director-general Datuk Abdul Hadi Awang Kechil said a team of NS officers would be at the site tomorrow to inspect and monitor clearing and repair works.
“The camp will not commence operations as long as it remains unsafe due to the landslide.

“Fortunately, there were no trainees at the camp when the landslide occurred,” he said in a press statement yesterday.
There are currenlty no national service programmes at the camp.
Sources from the camp said staff members, who lived in the hostels near the affected site, had been moved to safer quarters.

The landslide on Tuesday morning, believed to be due to last weekend’s heavy rain, destroyed more than 50 durian, nutmeg, and cempedak trees in two adjacent fruit orchards,
The orchard owners fear that another landslide would wipe out their remaining fruit trees and the camp’s hostels, which they said appeared to be “hanging” at the edge of the slope.
The Public Works Department has instructed officers to check on the site, but it says the decision was with the camp operator because the land is under private ownership.

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