SAR team stays committed to finding missing sinkhole victim as operation enters ninth day

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The search and rescue (SAR) team remains dedicated to finding the victim of the sinkhole incident at Jalan Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur, now in its ninth day of operations.  More than 115 officers and personnel, from various sectors are involved in the mission.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/mr2baed4   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The search and rescue team remains dedicated to finding the victim of the sinkhole incident

00:07at Jalan Masjid India, now in its ninth day of operations.

00:11More than 115 officers and personnel, including those from the Royal Malaysia Police, Fire

00:17and Rescue Department, Kuala Lumpur City Hall, Civil Defence Force, Indah Water Consortium,

00:25Malaysia Nuclear Agency and the Department of Mineral and Geoscience are involved in

00:30the operation.

00:31The search operation on the eighth day continued until 4 am, and a telescopic camera was used

00:37to obtain a clearer image, especially in the two sewers in the search area that were found

00:42to be blocked due to debris.

00:44The camera combines the technologies of both pushrod and crawler cameras previously employed

00:50in the search efforts.

00:52On August 23, 48-year-old G. Vijayalakshmi, a tourist from India, went missing after falling

00:59into an eight-metre deep hole caused by a sinkhole on Jalan Masjid India while en route

01:05to a nearby temple.

01:07For the past eight days, the team has employed various techniques, including jetting, flushing

01:12and pumping water out of the site to locate the victim.

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