HULU LANGAT: The death toll has risen to 16 after two landslides hit an orphanage here.
AP reported that 15 boys and one adult were killed in the incident while nine others survived.
It quoted district police chief Abdul Rashid Wahab Sunday, as saying that the bodies of 15 boys, aged 8 to 18, and a 34-year-old caretaker had been recovered.
Abdul Rashid said six boys and three wardens who were critically injured have been hospitalised.
He said the last victim was pulled out more than 12 hours after tons of earth crashed through the orphanage on Saturday
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