Three foreign workers were killed and 11 others were missing yesterday after a landslide at a construction site on the popular Malaysian tourist island of Penang, officials said. Huge mounds of earth slipped off a hillside in the morning and buried the men as they worked on two apartment blocks. About 160 rescuers were deployed to hunt for the workers, and police said that the bodies of two Bangladeshi workers and one from Myanmar were pulled from the debris. The other 11, who included one Malaysian supervisor and workers from Indonesia and Bangladesh, were still unaccounted for late yesterday at the site in the Tanjung Bungah area, said local police official Anuar Omar.
A Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia handout photo of rescue workers carrying a landslide victim into a lorry at a construction site in Tanjung Bungah in the north of Penang.
