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MPPP issues stop-work order on Kek Lok Si Temple car park

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 09:25 PM PDT

2011/10/04
Yiswaree Palansamy

GEORGE TOWN: The Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) has slapped a stop-work order on the proposed car park project at the Kek Lok Si Temple which is being constructed with approval.

Construction works have already started at the prject, which cost RM10 million.

State Local Government committee chairman Chow Kon Yeow said the council had only approved plans for another nearby project but the temple started work elsewhere too.

Chow said the temple has also been ordered to submit its contruction plans for the parking on the 7 acre lot to the council immediately.

"As a temporary measure, it (temple) has also been ordered to place plastic sheets on the partially developed land as this can pose as a threat to the public when there is a heavy downpour and to take necessary precaution measures so as to not put the public in harm's way," he said.

Senior citizen killed in tower crane accident

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 09:23 PM PDT

GEORGE TOWN: A 65-year-old welder was killed after a seven-storey tall tower crane toppled and crushed a pre-war house within the heritage enclave early this morning.

Liang Yit Kwang, 65, died in his sleep when the crane collapsed on the shoplot at the junction of Jalan Transfer and Jalan Sri Bahari.

The deceased from Gurun, Kedah died in his bedroom when the steel structure landed on top of him.

The crane was placed at a hotel construction site opposite the shoplot. The toppled crane also partially damaged another shoplot.

Another three people, including a woman in the same shoplot, aged between 54 and 79, were also injured. They suffered multiple head and bodily injuries. The trio have been warded at the Penang Hospital.

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