KUALA LUMPUR: Smart tunnel personnel and contractors from the Drainage and Irrigation Department (DID) are working round the clock to pump out excess water after it was used to divert floodwater on Tuesday. 

A spokesman from tunnel management company Syarikat Mengurus Air Banjir dan Terowong Sdn Bhd said the dewatering exercise was under way as the water level was still high. 

He was not able to confirm when the tunnel would be reopened to traffic. 

"The situation got a bit tricky with the incessant rain on Wednesday and Thursday.  

IPOH 15 Nov. -  Badan Pencegah Rasuah (BPR) akan menghantar sepasukan pegawai dari Unit Kejuruteraan Forensik, Putrajaya bagi membuat pemeriksaan menyeluruh ke atas struktur bangunan yang runtuh itu.

Pengarah BPR Perak, Samsiah Abu Bakar berkata, pasukan itu akan membantu BPR negeri menjalankan siasatan bagi mencari punca keruntuhan itu bagi menentukan sama ada terdapat salah laku semasa pembinaannya.

IPOH - Pasukan penyiasat dari beberapa jabatan dijangka mengambil masa sebulan melengkapkan laporan mereka berhubung kejadian bangunan dua tingkat milik Perbadanan Taman Negeri Perak (PTNP) di lereng bukit Tasik Banding, Gerik yang runtuh awal pagi Selasa lalu.

Pasukan itu akan dianggotai beberapa pegawai pakar Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) dari Kuala Lumpur serta pegawai-pegawai dari Lembaga Jurutera Malaysia(LJM).

Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali berkata, badan profesional itu akan dilantik selepas selesai perbincangan dengan Jabatan Kerja Raya yang akan memberi panduan dan nasihat kepada kerajaan negeri.

"Kejadian itu sebenarnya berlaku sedikit demi sedikit (dan) menurut pegawai PTNP, JKR telah siasat dan telah melakukan kerja pengukuhan supaya bangunan ini tidak runtuh selepas PTNP mendapati ada berlakunya kecondongan tanah dalam tempoh dua dan tiga minggu lepas,? katanya kepada pemberita selepas mempengerusikan mesyuarat mingguan exco kerajaan negeri di sini hari ini.

KUALA LUMPUR: The collapse of a two-storey building on a hillslope at the edge of Tasik Banding in Gerik, Perak, has Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu reeling with disbelief. 

"I am shocked and I want answers," said a furious Samy Vellu, who called for action to be taken against the contractor if it was found that structural failure caused the collapse.  

It was fortunate that no one was hurt "but there must be some action," he said. 

On Tuesday, the building began to collapse at 8am and crumbled completely two hours later. 

KUALA LUMPUR: The collapse of the Perak State Park Corporation complex in Banding has set in motion three different probes by the authorities. 

While the state government plans to appoint an independent committee to investigate and determine the actual cause of the incident, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu has directed the state Public Works Department to also look into the incident.

KUALA LUMPUR: The closure of the RM2 billion Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (Smart) at Sungai Besi beginning 6pm on Tuesday saved the city from being flooded. 

Drainage and Irrigation Department's Kuala Lumpur Flood Mitigation Project director K.J. Abraham said water was filling the tunnel at 300 cubic metres per second at 6pm on Tuesday.

This forced the department to issue a closure order for the tunnel. Due to the heavy rain in the city, the water, if not diverted out, would have resulted in Dataran Merdeka being under water.

IPOH 14 Nov. - Laporan awal Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) menyatakan kelemahan pada cerucuk dan ketidaksuaian reka bentuk bangunan mungkin menjadi punca bangunan dua tingkat milik Perbadanan Taman Negeri Perak (PTNP) di Tasik Banding, Gerik dekat sini runtuh semalam, kata Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Mohd. Tajol Rosli Ghazali hari ini.

Beliau berkata, di samping itu kajian awal JKR mendapati tiang bangunan tidak dapat menampung beban yang semakin bertambah selain bahan binaan yang mungkin turut menyumbang kepada kejadian tersebut.

IPOH: Badan Pencegah Rasuah (BPR) Perak sudah menubuhkan pasukan khas bagi menjalankan siasatan menyeluruh termasuk kemungkinan ada unsur rasuah dan penyelewengan berikutan kejadian bangunan milik perbadanan Taman Negeri Perak (PTNP) runtuk di Pulau Banding, dekat Grik, Kelmarin.

Pengarahnya, Samsiah Abu Bakar berkata pasukan itu yang ditubuhkan serta merta semalam akan menjalankan soal siasat terhadap semua pihak yang terbabit  dalam projek berkenaan termasuk kontraktor, perundingan serta pihak yang meluluskan projek terbabit.

A PROFESSIONAL  body will be appointed to investigate the collapse of a Perak State Parks Corporation building perched on a hill slope at Tasik Banding in Gerik on Tuesday.

Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali, Who Regretted the incident, said the body would be appointed after a discussion with the Public Works, Department  which would advise the State government on what had to be done.

He said as part of the investigation, the body was expected to call up the consultant and contractor of the project.