A man in eastern Malaysia saved about 100 people from falling into a sinkhole when he felt the earth move. He was walking to an outdoor toilet in the dark on the night of April 6.
Renjis Empati immediately ran back to the village where he screamed to alert the others living in a traditional longhouse in Sarawak state on Borneo island.
"I could feel the earth trembling, and I saw the longhouse fall into the sinkhole," the New Straits Times quoted Renjis as saying.
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The incident happened just after midnight.
"If not for him, most of us would be dead by now," villager Lada Rentap said. A few people said they lost all their things, including items passed down since long ago.
A number of native tribes in Sarawak live in longhouses, where an entire community lives in a single house. (Jason Cox, Staff writer with AP)
四月六日晚間,馬來西亞東部一名男子摸黑走到戶外上廁所,感覺地表在動,挽救約一百人免於陷入地底。
瑞尼斯.安帕提馬上跑回村莊,大聲警告同住在婆羅洲島砂勞越州傳統長屋的村民。
《新海峽時報》引述瑞尼斯的話說︰「我可以感覺地殼在動,然後就看到長屋陷入地底。」
這起意外發生在午夜過後。
村民拉達.瑞塔普說︰「假如沒有他,我們早就沒命了。」部分村民說自己已一無所有,包括傳家物品。
砂勞越州許多原住民都住在長屋裡,整個族群同處一個屋簷下。
(翻譯︰賴美君)
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