KUALA LUMPUR: Indah Water Konsortium (IWK) is opening up manholes along the 7km sewage line between Masjid India and Pantai Dalam to help locate a woman who fell into a sinkhole yesterday.
IWK chief executive officer Narendran Maniam said it would extend its fullest cooperation to the authorities to find the woman, identified as Vijayakumar, 48, from Andhra Pradesh, India, who fell into the sinkhole in Jalan Masjid India, yesterday.
"IWK will open up each manhole along the sewage alignment (from the scene of the incident), right up to the IWK plant in Pantai Dalam.
"We will go downstream and check each manhole. We started opening them up yesterday afternoon, but didn't find anything.
"It's possible that the victim is stuck in an inter-pump station," he said, when met at the scene, last night.
He said a human body could be washed away along the 1.5m-wide sewer pipe.
In the 8.25am incident, the victim, who was walking from Selangor Mansion towards Wisma Yakin, fell into the sinkhole, which suddenly appeared as she approached the section of the pedestrian walkway.
The incident, caught on closed-circuit television camera, also showed a man falling, but somehow managed to pull himself back up.