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Bodies of two Banjaran landslide victims to be claimed by families tomorrow

IPOH: The bodies of two people who were killed when a landslide hit part of their villa at the Banjaran Hotsprings Retreat here will be claimed by their families tomorrow.

A police source said post-mortem examinations on the victims, identified as Ooi Chee Wei, 39 and Lee Tze Juin, 32, would only be conducted tomorrow at the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital (HRPB).

He said the families will only be allowed to claim their bodies once the examinations were completed.

"The bodies arrived at the hospital at 11.17am today after being retrieved from the debris. We need to run Covid-19 tests on them before a post-mortem can be done at 8am tomorrow.

"We have also informed their family members of the incident and the bodies will be claimed by them once the post-mortem is done," he said when met at HRPB here.

It has now become standard operating procedure for Covid-19 tests to be conducted on bodies brought to mortuaries before post-mortem examinations can be carried out.

It was reported that a continuous downpour since yesterday is believed to have triggered the landslide which struck the Banjaran Hotsprings Retreat in Tambun here today, killing two guests.

After almost 10 hours of search operations, the authorities managed to retrieve the body of Ooi at 10.05am and Lee's body 13 minutes later.

The remains were found in the jacuzzi room of the victims' villa, which was struck by the landslide at 1am.

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