Saturday, June 22, 2013

No Trace of Human Remains: Jalan Macalister Tragedy (Penang Freak Storm)

http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-color-red-penang-storm-havoc-font-giant-pole-crashes-onto-cars-2-dead-1.299742?localLinksEnabled=false%2FArticle

"We have found no traces of human remains.

"The forensics team failed to find any blood

sample or body tissue from the crate."

He was hit by "7 fully-loaded buses at 130kph"

Read more: Jalan Macalister to reopen - General - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/jalan-macalister-to-reopen-1.304516#ixzz2WvJDHzpZ

I find this incident quite incredulous and sad because this poor driver has been buried with such great force that no trace of his human remians can be found and not a single blood sample or body tissue can be obtained.

watch the video here:

CCTV footage of 25 ton concrete block falling on a car at Menara UMNO in Penang.
The force was so great that not even a body part of the victim was recovered.

2013年6月19日 13:07

巫统危楼25吨避雷针巨柱直下打中怀疑是林振益汽车的一杀那视频。

相关意外中，导致家住28号，姓林桥的林振益民众林振益死无全尸，目前为止也无“葬身之地”，因为法庭必需通过验尸报告才能发出死亡证书。希望有关方面尽快处理死亡证书吧，好让死者入土为安。

巫统大厦带来的这场意外，可谓给受害人到家庭无休止的伤害。

CCTV 视频：
Carwin Cheng

In this incident, a pole that was attached to a 21-storey building in Jalan Macalister, Georgetown, Penang came crashing down after a thunderstorm, crushing vehicles travelling below, killing one and injuring five with two seriously wounded.

This 21 storey building is the UMNO buidling:

The scene of the incident was chaotic, with hundreds running away from nearby outlets. Occupants of the tower were also evacuated.

The above man could not be found and this is a heart wrenching report of his wife :

Sunday June 16, 2013

Woman wails for husband said to be buried 5m in the ground

BY TAN SIN CHOW and CHRISTOPHER TAN
north@thestar.com.my

GEORGE TOWN: It was a heart-wrenching scene in Jalan Macalister, the worst-hit area of Thursday's freak storm, when a woman cried out for her husband believed to be buried some 5m in the ground.

Lee Chai Song, 48, wailed and called out to her husband Lim Chin Aik, 44, in Hokkien “to come out and don't hide anymore” at the scene.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?sec=nation&file=/2013/6/16/nation/13247460

Lee said she was told at 5pm that the chassis number found on the wreckage matched those of her husband's car.

Lee and Chia Yiang watch as workers try to find the car and the remains of Lim Chin Aik.

GEORGE TOWN: A wrecked car, believed to be a Honda, was found in the 5metre-deep crater in Jalan Macalister today.

Rescue officials, however, said no signs of human remains were found inside.

They later recovered a Honda chassis plate from the wreckage.

Penang Health and Welfare Committee chairman Phee Boon Poh said the car is probably buried under a beam in the crater.

Bernama reported him saying that the broken parts could have been from a Honda City car believed to belong to a man who was reported missing since the day of the accident.

"As of now we have summoned a wrecking tractor to break that beam and recover the car out of it,"he said when visiting the site earlier

tractor removing the beam

"The collapsed structure is very heavy and has caused a hole of about five metres deep. The soil has become unstable with some washed away due to the damaged underground pipes," he told reporters at the scene of the incident Saturday.

GEORGE TOWN: Busy Jalan Macalister, which was badly damaged and left with a big hole after a 15m lightning arrestor on the 21-storey Menara Umno crashed onto it, is expected to be fully opened to traffic today.

Read more: Jalan Macalister to reopen - General - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/jalan-macalister-to-reopen-1.304516#ixzz2WvJUEQda

Jalan Macalister reopens a week after tragedy

FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013 - 11:43

Location:

GEORGE TOWN

JALAN MACALISTER was reopened yesterday at about 8pm, a week after a lightning arrester pole from the top of Menara Umno came crashing down on the road below, killing two people.

Part of Jalan Macalister was severely damaged after a 15m tall lightning arrestor came crashing down from atop the 21-storey Menara Umno, leaving a gaping 5m-deep hole in the ground.