Logs carried by water destroy private property, public infrastructure.
Villagers living at the foot of Mount Jerai in Kedah have described a "mini tsunami" gushing down from uphill, sweeping trees and bridges away and blanketing villages in mud.
Salwa Md Isa, 34, said she had never seen anything like it in all her years living in Kampung Setoi, a village at the foot of the mountain...
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