DID called to monitor coastal embankment in Kpg Bungai following house collapse from waves

MIRI (June 30): The Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia (DID) was called to Kampung Bungai to monitor the coastal embankment area following the recent collapse of a house after it was hit by waves.

Deputy Minister of Women, Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development Datuk Rosey Yunus said the urgency was due to the many houses there that were at risk.

“DID must monitor and take the necessary actions to protect the residents. A sea wall needs to be built, because one house has already collapsed here in Kampung Bungai.

“So, I don’t want to just hear about tender (process). What I want to see is actual implementation,” she said during a working visit to the collapsed house site last Saturday.

Meanwhile, she said the Miri Welfare Department had been informed to come and assess the needs of the victim, and that necessary assistance would be channelled to them through the department.

Following the incident, the houseowner, fisherman Bihie Ismail, 72, is temporarily staying with his children who live nearby.

The collapsed house was said to be part of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security’s Fishermen’s Special Housing Project (New Construction) 2024 programme, and the implementing agency was the Malaysian Fisheries Development Authority.