23 dead as a result of a landslide in Malaysia

On Saturday, rescuers continued their operations in the muddy land of a camp in Malaysia, in search of survivors and bodies, following a landslide that has killed 23 people so far, including six children, according to a new toll.

A previous toll reported that 19 people were killed, including four children, before the death toll rose to 21 on Friday night, then to 23, according to new figures.

Ten people are still missing since the disaster that occurred before dawn on Friday at the camp site of an organic vegetable farm near the town of Batang Kali in the vicinity of the capital, Kuala Lumpur.

Officials said more than 90 people, most of them asleep, were at the site, near a mountain resort that houses a casino.

Norazam Khamis, a firefighting and rescue official in the state of Selangor (central), which includes the capital, Kuala Lumpur, said the chances of finding survivors under the rubble were "slim".

Authorities said 61 people have so far been found unharmed.

Norazem Khamis told reporters on Friday that two of the victims, "a mother and her child, were hugging each other and buried underground."

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