KUALA LUMPUR: Four foreign workers were killed and 10 others, among them a Pakistani, went missing after a landslide at a construction site in George Town, capital of the northwest Malaysian state of Penang, authorities said.

Those trapped were identified as foreign workers from Indonesia and Bangladesh, including one Rohingya and one Pakistani, fire officials said in an update of the search. One Malaysian, the construction site supervisor, was also believed to be buried.

The bodies of three Bang­la­deshis and one unidentified person were found in the debris, officials said late on Saturday. Two workers escaped with light injuries.

Published in Dawn, October 22nd, 2017