Monday 19 November 2012

Highland Towers




       Seventeen years ago on Saturday December 11 1993, Malaysia was traumatised by a disaster that remains a painful memory to this day. At 1.35pm , an apartment block in Kuala Lumpur called Highland Towers collapsed in the catastrophic blink of an eye, killing 48 people. The city's fire and rescue services faced an unprecedented catastrophe as they struggled to find survivors in the massive heap of twisted wreckage, while relatives and friends waited desperately for news of the missing. In the aftermath of the tragedy, came an avalanche of urgent questions. Why had Highland Towers collapsed, and who should be called to account? In this emotionally super charged real life story, we hear the raw heart rending stories of the men and women who lived through 12 days of torment - and expose in compelling detail the fatal flaws that led to the power of two hundred jumbo jets ramming into the foundations of Highland Towers.

                                   

Annette Bashir (Block 1 Resident) -“I could see the building starting to quiver, I remember saying to my daughter, we have made it this far, I don’t want to get killed by a piece of flying concrete.”

                                                                                       

Iain Gray 
(Block 3 Resident) – “A lot of the family members were there and total shock, total disbelief, how can this happen to me, where are my loved ones?”

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