Mass Orang Asli deaths unprecedented, says Jakoa
The grave of a teenager from the Bateq tribe who died from a measles outbreak which claimed the lives of 14 other Orang Asli is pictured at a village next to the entrance of the Kuala Koh National Park in Kelantan on June 11. The Orang Asli development Department has called the deaths unprecedented and a dark chapter in the community's history. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, June 23, 2019.
THE Orang Asli Development Department has described the sudden mass deaths among the Orang Asli community from the Bateq tribe in Kuala Koh, Gua Musang, as an unprecedented occurrence. Kelantan/Terengganu Jakoa director Hashim Alang Abdul Hamid said it could be regarded as a dark moment in the history of the community.
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